Principles of Accounting Volume 2
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Capital Budgeting and Risk Analysis
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- Describe the most important capital budgeting techniques and how they are used to arrive at investment decisions.
- Name at least two capital budgeting techniques (for example, NPV, IRR, Payback Period, et cetera)
- How does a manager differentiate when to use capital budgeting versus simple
return on investment (ROI) techniques?
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