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3. WACCs and Hurdle Rate

verfasst von : Martin Schwarzbichler, Christian Steiner, Daniel Turnheim

Erschienen in: Financial Steering

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The WACC (weighted average cost of capital) and the hurdle rate determine key input parameters for investment decisions in energy companies. The WACC is necessary to calculate the required key financial KPIs—NPV , DPI and DPP—while the hurdle rate sets the minimum return requirement a project needs to achieve in order to reach approval and to subsequently contribute to achieving management’s ROACE target.

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Fußnoten
1
In practice, companies have more freedom to derive the cost of capital for the purpose of valuating and assessing financial decisions than to calculate the cost of capital for accounting purposes. This is because guidance under IFRS (e.g. IAS 36) sets limits for the calculation of the cost of capital. IFRS requires to follow the market (e.g. capital structure for the calculation of the cost of capital is derived from the peer group), whereas companies can also derive the cost of capital from the company-specific data and target (e.g. target capital structure of the company for the calculation of the cost of capital of this company).
 
2
Reference to the introduction and the characteristics of the energy company is made on the next page.
 
3
The cost of capital components are taken from KPMG (2016) for total average benchmarks.
 
4
If a company has got 100% equity financing and no debt financing, the asset beta equals the raw beta and also equals the levered beta. With each EUR of debt financing, the levered beta will increase. The more debt financing a company has, the higher the beta (as the risk of the equity sponsors increases as debt capital is ranked senior to equity capital).
 
5
Total average of Austria, Germany and Switzerland is used.
 
7
Assumption of Austrian Corporate Income Tax of 25%. Remark: in IFRS, the cost of capital might be required to be on pre-tax basis. In this Chapter, the cost of capital is post-tax.
 
8
For example, a higher business risk involved in upstream also leads to the fact that upstream players are generally characterised by higher share of equity.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
WACCs and Hurdle Rate
verfasst von
Martin Schwarzbichler
Christian Steiner
Daniel Turnheim
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75762-9_3