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Roger J. Grabowski is a managing director with Duff & Phelps. He is coauthor of Cost of Capital – Applications and Examples, Fifth Edition, The Lawyer's Guide to Cost of Capital, and Cost of Capital in Litigation.

James P. Harrington is a director at Duff & Phelps. He is a leading contributor to Duff & Phelps' efforts in the development of studies, surveys, online content and tools, firm-wide valuation models, data distribution platforms, and published thought leadership. He is a coauthor of the Duff & Phelps "Valuation Handbook" series, a contributing author to Cost of Capital – Applications and Examples, Fifth Edition, and a Duff & Phelps contributor to the Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation (SBBI) Yearbook.

Carla S. Nunes is a managing director in the Office of Professional Practice at Duff & Phelps, where she provides firm-wide technical guidance on a variety of valuation, financial reporting, and tax issues, with a particular focus on cost of capital. She is a coauthor of the Duff & Phelps "Valuation Handbook" series and a contributing author to Cost of Capital – Applications and Examples, Fifth Edition.

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR ACCURATE COST OF CAPITAL ESTIMATIONS--IN A SINGLE VOLUME

The 2017 Valuation Handbook - U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital is part of the international series of valuation resources authored by Duff & Phelps and published by John Wiley & Sons. This annually-updated reference provides business valuation and finance professionals with the critical data they need to measure company risk and cost of capital.

Gauging the risks of an investment is one of the trickiest aspects of finance. This comprehensive guidebook gives you two of the most important data sets in the industry, along with the ability to:

• Turn to a definitive resource of world-class data and guidance to gain a distinct competitive advantage in real-world situations.
• Use the most up-to-date data available, including rate of return figures adjusted to fix the skew shown in other studies on equity risk premiums.
• Quickly grasp how concepts and methodologies translate into actual practice when they are brought to life in exemplifying cases.

Accurate. Reliable. Trusted. The 2017 Valuation Handbook - U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital gives you an upper hand the moment you open it.

Other volumes in the annual series include:

• 2017 Valuation Handbook - U.S. Industry Cost of Capital
• 2017 Valuation Handbook - International Guide to Cost of Capital
• 2017 Valuation Handbook - International Industry Cost of Capital

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Every investment decision requires at least two inputs - an estimate of future net cash flows and a cost of capital estimate with which to discount the net cash flows. Properly estimating the cost of capital requires matching the risks associated with the expected net cash flows with the appropriate discount rate. The 2017 Valuation Handbook - U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital is the definitive source of accurate, reliable, and timely cost of capital data.

Estimating the cost of capital for business valuation, capital budgeting, feasibility studies, and merger and acquisition decisions is more difficult than ever before. Fortunately, the premier global valuation and corporate finance advisor, Duff & Phelps, has streamlined the process in this single-source guide to correctly calculating the cost of capital with authoritative data and methodologies.

The 2017 Valuation Handbook - U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital is the fully updated annual reference for corporate executives, CPAs, valuation professionals, judges and attorneys, and everyone else who needs accurate, authoritative, and timely information for determining the cost of equity capital. This comprehensive resource puts the critical valuation data previously published in the Ibbotson(R) Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation(R) (SBBI(R)) Valuation Yearbook and the Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report in one location.

Part of the Duff & Phelps series of annual valuation resources, this publication provides the critical data and guidance you need to confidently develop cost of capital estimates, including:

• The key data inputs for developing discount rates: (i) equity risk premia, (ii) size premia, (iii) risk premia over the risk-free rate, (iv) full-information industry betas, (v) industry risk premia, and (vi) risk-free rates
• Practical, easy-to-read discussions on valuation theory, including insightful discussions about the basic building blocks of cost of capital, the pros and cons of the various cost of capital estimation models, how to handle risk-free rates in an era of massive central bank monetary policy interventions, and more
• Detailed, easy-to-follow examples for properly using (i) various "build-up" methods, and (ii) the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to develop reliable levered unlevered, and high-financial-risk cost of equity capital estimates

The 2017 Valuation Handbook - U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital is your accurate, reliable, and trusted resource for estimating the cost of equity capital.