Capital budgeting

Capital budgeting

    • Capital budgeting is a required managerial tool. One duty of a financial manager is to choose investments with satisfactory cash flows and rates of return. Therefore, a financial manager must be able to decide whether an investment is worth undertaking and be able to choose intelligently between two or more alternatives.
    • To do this, a sound procedure to evaluate, compare, and select projects is needed.
    • This procedure is called capital budgeting.

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