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Author: Harold Bierman, Jr. Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317828828 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Written by authors of established texts in this area, this book is a companion volume to the classic The Capital Budgeting Decision. Exploring this key topic in corporate finance the authors examine the complexities of capital budgeting as well as the opportunities to improve the decision process where risk and time are important elements. Containing ‘Global Aspects’ sections that cover cross-border decision-making, this book also emphasizes the application of capital budgeting techniques to a variety of issues, including the hugely significant ‘buy versus lease’ decision that cost corporations billions each year. It gives in-depth coverage to: real options - the value of a project must take into consideration the flexibility that it provides management, acknowledging the option of making decisions in the future when more information is available decomposing cash flows - a project consists of many series of cash flows and each series deserves its own specific risk-adjusted discount rate. Decomposing the cash flows of an investment highlights the fact that while managers are generally aware that divisions and projects have different risks, too often they neglect the fact that the cash flow components may also have different risks, with severe consequences on the quality of the decision-making. Designed to assist those making business decisions at all levels, this volume is essential reading for all those working in or studying capital budgeting.
Author: Harold Bierman, Jr. Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317828828 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Written by authors of established texts in this area, this book is a companion volume to the classic The Capital Budgeting Decision. Exploring this key topic in corporate finance the authors examine the complexities of capital budgeting as well as the opportunities to improve the decision process where risk and time are important elements. Containing ‘Global Aspects’ sections that cover cross-border decision-making, this book also emphasizes the application of capital budgeting techniques to a variety of issues, including the hugely significant ‘buy versus lease’ decision that cost corporations billions each year. It gives in-depth coverage to: real options - the value of a project must take into consideration the flexibility that it provides management, acknowledging the option of making decisions in the future when more information is available decomposing cash flows - a project consists of many series of cash flows and each series deserves its own specific risk-adjusted discount rate. Decomposing the cash flows of an investment highlights the fact that while managers are generally aware that divisions and projects have different risks, too often they neglect the fact that the cash flow components may also have different risks, with severe consequences on the quality of the decision-making. Designed to assist those making business decisions at all levels, this volume is essential reading for all those working in or studying capital budgeting.
Author: Pamela P. Peterson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471446424 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 256
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Capital investment decisions are a constant challenge to all levels of financial managers. Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice shows you how to confront them using state-of-the-art techniques. Broken down into four comprehensive sections, Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice explores and illustrates all aspects of the capital budgeting decision process. Pamela Peterson and Frank Fabozzi examine the critical issues and limitations of capital budgeting techniques with an in-depth analysis of: Classifying capital budgeting proposals Determining the relevant cash flows for capital budgeting proposals Assessing the economic value of a capital budgeting proposal using different techniques Incorporating risk into the capital budgeting decision Evaluating whether to lease or borrow-to-buy Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice provides the knowledge, insight, and advice that will allow you to handle one of the most important aspects of your firm's financial management. Advanced enough for practitioners yet accessible enough for the novice, Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice is your complete guide to understanding and benefiting from the essential techniques of capital budgeting.
Author: H. Kent Baker Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470569506 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 533
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An essential guide to valuation techniques and financial analysis With the collapse of the economy and financial systems, many institutions are reevaluating what they are willing to spend money on. Project valuation is key to both cost effectiveness measures and shareholder value. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive examination of critical capital budgeting topics. Coverage extends from discussing basic concepts, principles, and techniques to their application to increasingly complex, real-world situations. Throughout, the book emphasizes how financially sound capital budgeting facilitates the process of value creation and discusses why various theories make sense and how firms can use them to solve problems and create wealth. Offers a strategic focus on the application of various techniques and approaches related to a firm's overall strategy Provides coverage of international topics based on the premise that managers should view business from a global perspective Emphasizes the importance of using real options Comprised of contributed chapters from both experienced professionals and academics, Capital Budgeting Valuation offers a variety of perspectives and a rich interplay of ideas related to this important financial discipline.
Author: Adrian Buckley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Capital budget Languages : en Pages : 392
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An advanced level text which covers the concepts and practice of appraising international capital budgeting decisions; it presents many pioneering ideas for the development of a logical appraisal framework.
Author: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313004595 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
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The successful evaluation of capital projects requires not only a thorough understanding of traditional techniques of capital budgeting but advanced techniques as well. Riahi-Belkaoui examines the multidimensionality of capital budgeting in its various facets and in ways that executives with no special facility in the subject can follow. He covers replacement decisions, capital rationing, capital budgeting under inflation uncertainty, capital budgeting in a multinational setting with attention to political risks, social project evaluation, and concepts of wealth measurement and distribution. The result is a wide ranging treatment for executive decision makers in finance, banking, investment, and general management, and for their colleagues with similar interests in the academic community. Riahi-Belkaoui begins by examining the principles underlying the time value of money. In Chapter Two he introduces capital budgeting and in Chapter Three moves to advanced capital budgeting. There he discusses such advanced topics as replacement decisions, capital rationing, and capital budgeting under uncertainty and inflation. In Chapter Four he takes up the same issues associated with capital budgeting but in a global context, and in Chapter Five, the determination of political risk and its use in capital budgeting internationally. Chapter Six compares the techniques of leasing versus purchasing and their reliance on capital budgeting techniques. In Chapter Seven he turns to the techniques of capital budgeting applied to social projects, and ends the book with an examination of the behavior and cognitive implications of wealth measurement and distribution. This is a useful survey and examination of the traditional and advanced techniques of capital budgeting and their applications in domestic and international contexts.
Author: Shelley Leigh MacDougall Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This thesis studies the implementation stage of the capital budgeting process for investments in advanced manufacturing technology. Of interest is how companies resolve problems, or misalignments, arising in this stage, the nature of the evaluation of alternative adaptations and the implications for project goals, real options and success. The study builds on the capital budgeting literature by going beyond the pre-adoption stage and following projects through installation, commissioning and consolidation. Knowledge gained of implementation by researchers of innovation is introduced, marrying it with the concepts of wealth-maximization and measures of financial success. A new conceptualization of the capital budgeting process is presented. The case study method was used for the purpose of developing grounded theory. Four small-to-medium sized, privately owned organizations in Nova Scotia, Canada were studied in depth. They were in various stages of implementation on advanced manufacturing technology, including one in the pre-installation stage. All companies encountered misalignments and adaptations in the implementation of their investment. There were varying degrees of success and satisfaction with the projects. Collected data was grouped and regrouped by independent variables. As patterns emerged, propositions were developed summarizing these patterns. Observations pertaining to the evaluation of adaptations included the following:o The expenditure required to resolve a misaligrunent was measured against the overall project cost or the original benefits to be gained from making the equipment work.o Managers occasionally evaluated adaptations using a TINA (There Is No Alternative) rationale when dealing with economic investments and technical misalignments, when there was a sense of urgency or production was highly dependent on the technology.o Decisions were overshadowed by earlier decisions and the alternatives contemplated became fewer as implementation progressed.o There was a tendency of both operators and management to revert to old practices in the face of implementation misaligriments. Partial abandonment was also noted as a response to misalignments.o For the most part, companies held true to project goals, although these were modified as the limitations of the technology and the organization were learned and compromises were needed.o Measures of success were generally lowered and lengthened through implementation.o As the companies adapted to implementation misalignments, changes were made to the real options and their value. Changes to real options were observed and compiled. Most prevalent were delays in the earliest possible exercise and the changes to the quantity of options. The threats to real option value observed in this study urges us to revise the valuation of such investments. The development of options in the earliest stages of implementation was also observed, offering insight into how real options are created. Some of the characteristics of those companies whose emphasis on real options increased or decreased were noted in this study. The presence or absence of these qualities has implications for predicting changes to the real option value of investments. Finally, the study joins up with the post-auditing literature by making recommendations for post-auditing to help achieve project success. Overall, this study serve's to broaden the definition of the implementation stage of capital budgeting to include decision and evaluation of adaptations for the misalignments that almost invariably occur and open it up for further study. It gives recognition to the importance and complexity of the implementation stage and the impact of misaligrunents and adaptations on real options, achievement of project goals and project feasibility.
Author: Don Dayananda Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 113943487X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 290
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This book explains the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects. The coverage extends from the development of basic concepts, principles and techniques to the application of them in increasingly complex and real-world situations. Identification and estimation (including forecasting) of cash flows, project appraisal formulae, and the application of net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR) and other project evaluation criteria are illustrated with a variety of calculation examples. Risk analysis is extensively covered by the use of risk adjusted discount rate, certainty equivalent, sensitivity, simulation and Monte Carlo analysis. The NPV and IRR models are further applied to forestry, property and international investments. Resource constraints are introduced to the capital budgeting decisions with a variety of worked examples using linear programming technique. All calculations are extensively supported by Excel workbooks on the Web, and each chapter is well reviewed by end of chapter questions.
Author: Harold Bierman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 488
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The problem of capital budgeting; Illustrating the measures of investment worth; Present value versus rate of return; The meaning of present value; Classifying investments; The use of cash flows in evaluating investments; Corporate income taxes and investment decisions; Capital budgeting under capital rationing; An introduction to uncertainty; Introduction to portfolio analysis; The capital asset pricing model; Application of the capital asset pricing model to multiperiod investments; Uncertainty and undiversified investors; Buy or lease; Accounting concepts consistent with present-value calculations; Capital budgeting and inflation; Investment timing; Evaluation private investment proposals: a national economic point of view; Fluctuating rates of output; using investment portfolios to change risk; Models for portfolio analysis; Capital rationing: a programming approach.