Stocks and Flows
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Stocks and Flows
accounting-based earnings per share can be made to say just about whatever a company’s management wants them to, but cash flow is much harder to fiddle with.
Stocks allow inflows and outflows to be decoupled and to be independent and temporarily out of balance with each other.
free cash flows are what give the firm its investment value. A present value calculation simply adjusts those future cash flows to reflect the fact that money we plan to receive in the future is worth less than money we receive today.