Before-Tax Cash Flow
Before-tax cash flow measures cash generated before income taxes, often used in property, project, and business analysis.
Free Cash Flow, Capex, and Investment Cash Flows covers Before-Tax Cash Flow, Free Cash Flow, Free Cash Flow to Equity (FCFE), Free Cash Flow to the Firm (FCFF), and related corporate-finance topics for cash-flow quality, revenue, operating-cost, margin, and return analysis.
Free Cash Flow, Capex, and Investment Cash Flows covers cash inflows and outflows, operating cash flow, free cash flow, revenue quality, operating costs, margins, profitability, and return metrics used to analyze a business.
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| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Before-Tax Cash Flow | Before-tax cash flow measures cash generated before income taxes, often used in property, project, and business analysis. |
| Free Cash Flow | Cash a business generates after operating needs and capital investment, widely used in valuation and capital allocation. |
| Free Cash Flow to Equity (FCFE) | Free cash flow to equity estimates cash available to common shareholders after operating needs, reinvestment, and financing flows. |
| Free Cash Flow to the Firm (FCFF) | Free cash flow to the firm estimates cash available to all capital providers before discretionary financing distributions. |
| Levered Free Cash Flow | Levered free cash flow is cash available to equity holders after operating needs, capital spending, and debt payments. |
| Standard Cash Flow Pattern | A standard cash flow pattern has an initial outflow followed by inflows, simplifying investment appraisal and IRR analysis. |
| Unconventional Cash Flow | An unconventional cash flow has multiple sign changes, which can complicate IRR and project evaluation. |
Corporate cash-flow content is educational and does not provide accounting, audit, tax, valuation, or investment advice.
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Before-tax cash flow measures cash generated before income taxes, often used in property, project, and business analysis.
Cash a business generates after operating needs and capital investment, widely used in valuation and capital allocation.
Free cash flow to equity estimates cash available to common shareholders after operating needs, reinvestment, and financing flows.
Free cash flow to the firm estimates cash available to all capital providers before discretionary financing distributions.
Levered free cash flow is cash available to equity holders after operating needs, capital spending, and debt payments.
A standard cash flow pattern has an initial outflow followed by inflows, simplifying investment appraisal and IRR analysis.
An unconventional cash flow has multiple sign changes, which can complicate IRR and project evaluation.