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Potential Dividends Versus Paid Dividends: Theoretical and Empirical Reasons to Use Paid Dividends - The Cases of Latin America and Argentina (In Spanish)
Many financial consultants, authors and teachers include changes in liquid assets (potential dividends) in the cash flows. This practice is against basic financial theory. We present economic, theoretical and empirical arguments to support the position to use only paid dividends in the cash flows. Hence when valuing cash flows we should consider paid dividends and not include potential dividends.