Tuesday, December 20, 2011

EBITDA Fantasy

Nothing besides what we know, but the article is interesting anyway.

A Fantasia do EBITDA

They point out that EBITDA is inadequate to measure cash flow, mainly because it doesn't count for financial expenses. Besides that, I add the following EBITDA flaws:
  • Ignore tax payments
  • Ignore investments in work capital (inventories and receivables) as revenue grows
  • Ignore investments made by the company
  • Count all account trick as being cash (like reversal of provisions or gain on biological assets)
Yes, EBITDA was created on purpose to overvalue companies real gains!

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