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Strategies & Market Trends : Free Cash Flow as Value Criterion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (224)	12/4/1997 9:54:00 PM
From: TimmFred	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 253

jbe, as founder, I think you would be well within your "rights" to declare a standard if you think this would be helpful. I for one learned an incredible amount from trying to read this thread, and I mean trying.

To: jbe who wrote (224)	1/22/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: Jim Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 253

Unfortunately, I just discovered this thread. I've read through most of the posts, and I really hate to see it end with no closure. I am searching for all of the different ways to calculate FCF and would like to see a summary of all of the different ideas of what the right FCF is. Maybe the thread can keep going if we decide there really is no right way, and can value companies based on a few different ideas of what FCF is. Maybe we can come up with some "standard thread nomenclature" for the different ideas people have, Like Basic Free Cash Flow (BFCF) is just Net Income + D&A - CAPEX, and Conservative Free Cash Flow is BFCF - R&D, etc. Just an idea.