DCF- Include Transactions Cost?

If you do a DCF and say your holding period is 5 years. On the last year you want to get rid of the property/asset. There's a transaction fee of $1 million do you factor that as a cost in the last year?

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Fees on exit - yes.

Fees on entry - only those fees that would be payable following a decision to do the deal.

For example, consider a PE fund looking at an acquisition. It has $5m in DD costs it will need to pay advisers whether or not the deal was done.

When the PE team is preparing a investment committee paper with DCF for the deal, the $5m in costs should be excluded from the DCF because those costs are irrelevant to the decision being made. That is, the approve/reject decision has no impact on whether or not those fees will be spent, as they are sunk costs.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

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