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Capital Budgeting Cash Flows
Managerial Finance Ch 8
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Business
Undergraduate 3
04/30/2010

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capital budgeting
Definition
the process of evaluating and selecting long-term investments that are consistent with the firm's goal of maximizing owner wealth
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capital expenditure
Definition
an outlay of funds by the firm that is expected to produce benefits over a period of time greater than 1 year
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operating expenditure
Definition
an outlay of funds by the firm resulting in benefits received within 1 year
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capital budgeting process
Definition
five distinct but interrelated steps: proposal generation, review and analysis, decision making, implementation, and follow-up
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independent projects
Definition
projects whose cash flows are unrelated or independent of one another; the acceptance of one does not elimante the others from further consideration
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mutually exclusive projects
Definition
projects that compete with one another, so that the acceptance of one eliminates from further consideration all other projects that serve a similar function
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unlimited funds
Definition
the financial situation in which a firm is able to accept all independent projects that provide an acceptable return
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capital rationing
Definition
The financial situation in which a firm has only a fixed number of dollars available for capital expenditures, and numerous projects compete for these dollars.
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accept-reject approach
Definition
The evaluation of capital expenditure proposals to determine whether they meet the firm's minimum acceptance criterion
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ranking approach
Definition
The ranking of capital expenditure projects on the basis of some predetermined measure, such as the rate of return
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conventional cash flow pattern
Definition
An initial outflow followed only by a series of inflows
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nonconventional cash flow pattern
Definition
An initial outflow followed by a series of inflows and outflows
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relevant cash flows
Definition

the incremental cash outflow (investment) and resulting subsequent inflows associated with a proposed capital expenditure

 

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incremental cash flows
Definition
the additional cash flows-outflows or inflows-expected to result from a proposed capital expenditure
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initial investment
Definition
the relevant cash outflow for a proposed project at time zero
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