Subject: Financial Management Chapter no. 11: Capital Budgeting Chapter No. 11 – Capital Budgeting Contents ♦ Capital budgets as opposed to revenue budgets ♦ Different kinds of capital budgets – non-productive assets‚ improving operating efficiency and capital projects ♦ Choosing capital projects – Conventional and Discounted Cash Flow techniques ♦ Payback period‚ Discounted payback period‚ Net Present Value‚ Internal Rate of Return‚ Profitability Index methods ♦ Assumptions underlying different
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Capital Budgeting Luz A comas Strayer University Professor: Michael Hamuicka Financial Management – FIN 534 05/02/2011 Abstract Capital budgeting is one of the most important areas of financial management. There are several techniques commonly used to evaluate capital budgeting projects namely the payback period‚ accounting rate of return‚ present value and internal rate of return and profitability index. Recent studies highlight that financial managers worldwide favor
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Capital Budgeting Meaning – Capital budgeting (or investment appraisal) is the planning process used to determine whether an organization’s long term investments such as new machinery‚ replacement machinery‚ new plants‚ new products‚ and research development projects are worth the funding of cash through the firm’s capitalization structure (debt‚ equity or retained earnings). It is the process of allocating resources for major capital‚ or investment‚ expenditures. One of the primary goals of
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Capital Budgeting Rules: NPV‚ IRR‚ Payback‚ Discounted Payback‚ AAR Categories of Plans 1. Replacement Projects: decisions to replace old equipment – those are among the easier of capital budgeting techniques. It is important to decide whether to replace the equipment when it wears out or to invest in repairing the machine. 2. Expansion Projects: These are decisions whether to increase the size of business or not – they are more uncertain than replacement projects. 3. New products and services: These
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Notes: FIN 303 Spring 09‚ Part 7 – Capital Budgeting Professor James P. Dow‚ Jr. Part 7. Capital Budgeting What is Capital Budgeting? Nancy Garcia and Digital Solutions Digital Solutions‚ a software development house‚ is considering a number of new projects‚ including a joint venture with another company. Digital Solutions would provide the software expertise to do the development‚ while the other company‚ American Financial Consultants (AFC) would be responsible for the marketing.
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earnings. Retained earnings are determined by dividend payout. The spreadsheet sets ROE at 15% for the five years from 2006 to 2010. If Reeby Sports will lose its competitive edge by 2011‚ then it cannot continue earning more than its 10% cost of capital. Therefore ROE is reduced to 10% starting in 2011. The payout ratio is set at .30 from 2006 onwards. Notice that the long-term growth rate‚ which settles in between 2011 and 2012‚ is ROE × ( 1 – dividend payout ratio ) = .10 × (1 - .30) = .07
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Capital Budgeting Case Egret Printing & Publishing Company Instructor: Mr. Sabin Bikram Panta Submitted By: Group 3 Shivshankar Yadav (12336) 9/3/2012 Theory and Case Background: The term capital budgeting refers to the process of decision making by which firms evaluate the purchase of major fixed assets‚ including building‚ machineries‚ and equipment. Capital budgeting describes the firm’s formal planning process for the acquisition and investment of capital and results in capital
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CAPITAL BUDGETING The process in which a business determines whether projects such as building a new plant or investing in a long-term venture are worth pursuing. Oftentimes‚ a prospective project’s lifetime cash inflows and outflows are assessed in order to determine whether the returns generated meet a sufficient target benchmark. Also known as "investment appraisal." Generating investment project proposals consistent with the firm’s strategic objectives; Estimating after-tax incremental
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Question a What is capital budgeting? Are there any similarities between a firm’s capital budgeting decisions and an individual’s investment decisions? Capital budgeting is the process of analyzing potential additions to fixed assets. Capital budgeting is very important to firm’s future because of the fixed asset investment decisions chart a company’s course for the future. The firm’s capital budgeting process is very much same as those of individual’s investment decisions. There are some steps
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Capital budgeting Capital budgeting describes the long-term longplanning for making and financing major long-term projects. long- CAPITAL BUDGETING 1. Identify potential investments. 2. Choose an investment. 3. Follow-up or “post audit.” Follow“post audit.” Net present value model Net present value model The net-present-value (NPV) method net-presentcomputes the present value of all expected future cash flows using a minimum desired rate of return. The minimum desired rate of
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