Working capital adjustment and enterprise value

Technical question relating to valuation and target/normalised WC.

Lets say we establish that the target or average working capital required by a business is $20m. When we buy the business it only has $10m working capital. Does this $10m difference go to enterprise value?

Hopefully the worked example below clarifies

equity value agreed $100m Net Debt $10m WC adjustment $10m

Enterprise Value $120

Is this the correct way to look at it or would you usually view the WC adjustment as separate? i,.e. in the above example EV would be $110 instead of $120?

Thanks.

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