Talk:Free cash flow/Archives/2021

Deleted possible vandalism

The Uses section contained an inline citation to a book called "Zen & the Art of Masturbation: The End of the Aeon at The Spank the Monkey Café – A Farce or Love Story, I’m Not Certain Which." It's on Google Books. Based on a few pages I saw there, I doubt it's what we could call a reliable source. I'm guessing it's vandalism, so I deleted it. I would be happy to reinstate it, if someone can show me evidence that it's not a prank, has something to do with free cash flow and is worthy of citation on Wikipedia. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 16:51, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Lead and first calculation method

Greetings Wikipedians! While many formulas are cited herein, it is not clear where their source was. I suspect they came from the Brealey and Stewart books cited under References, but we can't be sure because those books are not linked to inline citations. To rectify that problem I found a section in Ross/Westerfield/Jordan that provides support for calculation almost identical to the previous editor's first formula. The method shown in my edit has a slightly different treatment of taxes (it simply subtracts taxes, as opposed to mutiplying by (1-tax rate). But the result should be the same. My method is, I believe, easier to understand and offers the reader an inline citation to a reliable source for those that wish to verify that the formula is correct -- something that's very important, when we're writing about calculations and students are probably a key audience. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 12:11, 10 July 2021 (UTC)