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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- 2001 Canadian Academic Accounting Association
- ISSN
- 0823-9150
- eISSN
- 1911-3846
- DOI
- 10.1506/W13B-K4BT-455N-TTR2
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This paper examines why practitioners and researchers get different estimates of equity value when they use a discounted cash flow (CF) model versus a residual income (RI) model. Both models are derived from the same underlying assumption — that price is the present value of expected future net dividends discounted at the cost of equity capital — but in practice and in research they frequently yield different estimates. We argue that the research literature devoted to comparing the accuracy of these two models is misguided; properly implemented, both models yield identical valuations for all firms in all years. We identify how prior research has applied inconsistent assumptions to the two models and show how these seemingly small errors cause surprisingly large differences in the value estimates.
Journal
Contemporary Accounting Research – Wiley
Published: Jun 1, 2001