TY - BOOK AU - Kruschwitz,Lutz AU - Löffler,Andreas ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Stochastic Discounted Cash Flow: A Theory of the Valuation of Firms T2 - Springer Texts in Business and Economics, SN - 9783030370817 AV - HB172.5 U1 - 339 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - Macroeconomics KW - Investment banking KW - Securities KW - Business mathematics KW - Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics KW - Investments and Securities KW - Business Mathematics N1 - Introduction: A Stochastic Approach to Discounted Cash Flow -- Basic Elements: Cash Flow, Tax, Expectation, Cost of Capital, Value -- Corporate Income Tax: WACC, FTE, TCF, APV -- Personal Income Tax -- Corporate and Personal Income Tax -- Proofs -- Sketch of Solutions; Open Access N2 - This open access book discusses firm valuation, which is of interest to economists, particularly those working in finance. Firm valuation comes down to the calculation of the discounted cash flow, often only referred to by its abbreviation, DCF. There are, however, different coexistent versions, which seem to compete against each other, such as entity approaches and equity approaches. Acronyms are often used, such as APV (adjusted present value) or WACC (weighted average cost of capital), two concepts classified as entity approaches. This book explains why there are several procedures and whether they lead to the same result. It also examines the economic differences between the methods and indicates the various purposes they serve. Further it describes the limits of the procedures and the situations they are best applied to. The problems this book addresses are relevant to theoreticians and practitioners alike UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37081-7 ER -