ABSTRACT This report describes capital budgeting techniques such as NPV (The NPV of an investment is the difference between its market value and its cost‚ IRR (The IRR is the discount rate that makes the estimated NPV of an investment equal to zero. PAYBACK (The payback period is the length of time until the sum of an investment’s cash flows equals its cost)‚ discounted payback period (The discounted payback period is the length of time until the sum of an investment’s discounted cash flows equals
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TIME VALUE OF MONEY Time value of money refers to an individual preference of a given amount of cash now rather than the same amount at some future time. The reasons why an individual would prefer cash now: i) Subjective preference for present consumption – one may prefer present consumption over future consumption of goods and services because of the urgency of present wants or the risk of not being in a position to enjoy future consumption. ii) Availability of investment opportunities –
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Introduction of Capital Budgeting Capital budgeting is the process of identifying‚ analyzing and selecting investment project by a firm which the project expected will generate cash flows over one year. Each potential investment’s value will be estimated by using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) valuation in order to find its Net Present Value (NPV). All the incremental cash flows from the investment required estimating the size and timing by using this valuation. The NPV will influence by the discount
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CAPITAL BUDGETING ANALYSIS To achieve success over time‚ a firm’s managers must identify and invest in projects that provide positive net present values to maximize shareholder wealth. Capital Budgeting Is the process of identifying‚ evaluating‚ and implementing a firms investment opportunities. Involves long-term projects Requires large initial investment Constructing plant and equipment Time frame maybe as short as a year or as long as twenty to thirty years The profitability of a firm
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CHAPTER 12 RISK TOPICS AND REAL OPTIONS IN CAPITAL BUDGETING FOCUS Traditional capital budgeting techniques compute point estimates of NPV and IRR with no measure of variability. Hence they don’t give managers the information necessary to include a tradeoff between risk and expected return in their decisions. This chapter is concerned with modern approaches to incorporating risk into capital budgeting. The techniques considered include probabilistic cash flows‚ risk adjusted discount rates
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Capital Budgeting Essay (Derived from Chapter 17: Long-Term Investment Analysis) Title: The Lorie-Savage Problem BUS 505 – Multinational Economics of Technology Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction – Lorie-Savage Problem 3 1.1 Thesis Statement 3 2.0 Supporting Research 4 3.0 Conclusions and Recommendations 6 References 7 1.0 Introduction – Lorie-Savage Problem The Lorie-Savage problem is a problem introduced in 1955 that addresses the issue in how to allocate capital (or resources)
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Capital budgeting (or investment appraisal) is the planning process used to determine a firm’s expenditures on assets whose cash flows are expected to extend beyond one year such as new machinery‚ equipments‚ etc. It is also the process of identifying‚ analyzing and selecting investment projects whose cash flows are expected to extend beyond one year such as research and development project. Capital expenditures can be very large and have a significant impact on the firm’s financial
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Capital Budgeting Scenarios Shannan Coleman FIN/486 September 23‚ 2012 Sal Sadiq Capital Budgeting Scenarios Capital Budgeting: Proposal A – New Factory Proposal A is to build a new factory to decide if this would be a feasible move for the company they need to perform a net present value analysis. To do this they will only need to look at the incremental cash flows‚ which are as follows: 1. Initial investment of $10 million that will be the cost to build the new factory. 2. Sales
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Capital investment decisions are those decisions that involve current outlays in return for a stream of benefits in future years. It is true to say that all the firm ’s expenditures are made in expectation of realizing future benefits. Investment decisions are extremely important because they have a major long term effect on a firm ’s operations. For example‚ when BMW decided to build some of its cars in Greece‚ South Carolina‚ it made an investment in additional productive capacity that will affect
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The Society for Financial Studies Decision Processes‚ Agency Problems‚ and Information: An Economic Analysis of Capital Budgeting Procedures Author(s): Anthony M. Marino and John G. Matsusaka Source: The Review of Financial Studies‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 1 (Spring‚ 2005)‚ pp. 301-325 Published by: Oxford University Press. Sponsor: The Society for Financial Studies. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598074 . Accessed: 15/11/2013 17:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance
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