Re-evaluating an investment decision

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Question: I am re-evaluating an investment decision from 2004 - - where the initial investment was made. If I wanted to look at the investment today would I need to take the future value of the past CFs and investment into todays dollars and then re run my DCF model. I believe this is the right approach. Thoughts? (...) Read more? Sign up for free

		Isaac Nyamanza
	Timing with NPV Revalue the initial investment to its present value and discount the future cash flows to get NPV as at now. This will give you a better position for decision making.

		Muhammad Habeeb
	Think now when you think about decision making. As an opinion there is no problem to take past CFs for the re-evaluation, but the decision made in the past was probably valid in that situation. So think now to see whether some "being things remain equal" is still valid or not. See cash flows in the current scenarios for technical, economical, social & legal feasibility.

		kssubramanian
	DCF The relevant things are only to be taken. The pres (...)

		Abubakar Umar
	Re-evaluating an Investment Decision It is better to consider the past cash flows up to (...)

		mahrukh
	the context For the sake of decision making ignore all past ex (...)

		mac
	Base on the past I really think thats a great idea, you've got to t (...)