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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WHAT IS CAPITAL BUDGETING? 1. 2. Decision making process of selecting and evaluating longterm investments. Examples include the decision to replace equipment‚ to develop new product‚ or to build new shop at a new branch of operations. It is very crucial for companies to make the right decisions because these projects require a huge amount of cash outflow committed for many years. A right decision will increase the firm’s value as well as the shareholders’ wealth. A wrong decision will
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Capital Budgeting Introduction Capital budgeting decisions are the most important investment decisions made by management. The objective of these decisions is to select investments in real assets that will increase the value of the firm. (Kidwell and Parrino‚ 2009) Project Classification Types * Replacement projects are expenditures necessary to replace worn-out or damaged equipment. * Cost reduction projects include expenditures to replace serviceable but obsolete plant and equipment
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Capital Budgeting QRB/501 July 25‚ 2013 On this paper the reader will be able to find the rationale in the analysis of a specific capital budgeting case study. Definitions along with explanations related to capital budgeting such as Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) will be provided and debriefed. It is extremely relevant to mention that capital budgeting allows the companies to analyze one or more projects to decide eventually which project or piece of equipment
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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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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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The Basics of Capital Budgeting Integrated Case Study Allied Components Company You recently went to work for Allied Components Company‚ a supplier of auto repair parts used in the after-market with products from Daimler‚ Chrysler‚ Ford‚ and other automakers. Your boss‚ the chief financial officer (CFO)‚ has just handed you the estimated cash flows for two proposed projects. Project L involves adding a new item to the firm’s ignition system line; it would take some time to build up the
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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 Analysis Project MBA 612 The General Capital Budgeting Process and how it is implemented within Organizations The general capital budgeting process is the tool by which an organization determines its choice of investments through analyzing and evaluating its cash in and out flows. The capital budget process is vital to the organizations mere existence. Capital budgeting decisions can mean the difference between the company’s
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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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