Corporate Finance
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259918940
Author: Ross, Stephen A.
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Chapter 6, Problem 1MC
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To determine: IRR, NPV and payback of the project.
The internal rate of return is the discounting rate of capital budgeting in which the NPV of the cash flow of the project comes equally to zero.
Capital Budgeting:
The decision-related to the investment for long run is called capital budgeting. Capital budgeting includes the investment in the heavy machinery and information technology.
The net present value is a differential amount of the net
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