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| investments in real assets |
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| the analysis of projects within the firm, such as the purchase of new plant and equipment |
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| capital budgeting analysis |
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| the minimum rate of return that an investor would accept in order to invest in a project of a particular risk |
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| a capital budgeting model that compares the PV of the projects benefits with the PV of the projects costs. The difference between benefits and costs is the net present value of the project |
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| benefits that would not have been received, or those costs that would not have been incurred, if a project had not been undertaken |
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| a capital budgeting model: a ratio constructed by dividing the PV of the projects benefits by the PV of the project's cost |
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| a capital budgeting model represented by the discount rate that equates the present value of the costs with the present value of the benefits from the project |
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| a graph that demonstrates the net present value of a project at different discount rates |
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| net present value profile |
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| a capital budgeting model that answers the question: How long will it take to recoup the initial investment |
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| a capital budgeting model defined by a ratio of average accounting profits over the project's life divided by some estimate of the average annual investment |
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| accounting rate of return |
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| the reduction in the book value of an asset using accounting rules |
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| projects whose accept-or-reject decision can be made without affecting other projects |
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| accept-or-reject projects (independent projects) |
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| projects whose accept-or-reject decision affects other decisions |
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| ranking projects (mutually exclusive projects) |
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| a shortage of investment capital caused either by an unwillingness of external entities to provide additional capital or by an internal decision that the firm must limit growth |
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| a project whose cash flow stream begins with one or more cash outflows and is followed only by cash flows |
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| a project whose cash flow stream begins with a cash inflow and is then followed by cash outflows |
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| a project whose cash flow stream switches through time from inflows to outflows or outflows to inflows more than once |
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| multiple sign change project |
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| the required rate of return, or the interest rate used in the npv value model to discount future cash flows. It can also be used to determine that good projects are those whose internal rate of return is greater than, or hurdles over, the required rate of return |
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| an attempt to measure the rate of return required by the firm to satisfy its sources of capital |
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| weighted average cost of capital |
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