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Basic Question 0 of 4
True or False?
After the basic obligations of a business have been met, the portion of the annual net cash flows from operating activities that remains available for discretionary purposes is called free cash flow.
User Contributed Comments 7
User | Comment |
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o123 | ** FCF is derived from CFO only! |
xcye | Basic obligations of the business? Shouldn't that account for payment for the debt due? That's not included in the FCF calculation. |
StanleyMo | Free cash flow is operating cash flow minus money spent on capital expenditures and acquisitions (listed under investment activities). |
StanleyMo | xcye, the operating activities did consist of interested paid and income tax paid, please tae note. |
gulfa99 | is capital expenditure an obligation? |
oneashok | gulfa99, yes both fixed and working capital expenditure should be subtracted from CFO to arrive at the FCF |
Davidrh | oneashok: that is not correct. CFO has already considered changes in working capital (A/R, A/P, and Inventories are a part of CFO already) |

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Learning Outcome Statements
describe the process of calibrating a binomial interest rate tree to match a specific term structure;
describe the backward induction valuation methodology and calculate the value of a fixed-income instrument given its cash flow at each node;
compare pricing using the zero-coupon yield curve with pricing using an arbitrage-free binomial lattice;
CFA® 2025 Level II Curriculum, Volume 4, Module 27.