FIN 2800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-11: Foreign Direct Investment, Current Liability, Sunk Costs

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Capital budgeting: the process of evaluating and selecting long-term investments that are consistent with the firm"s goal of maximizing owners" wealth long-term investments most common is in fixed assets (earning assets) Ex: advertising campaign with expected benefits over a long period; not fixed asset) Ex: new machine with a usable life of 15 years; fixed asset on firm"s balance sheet. Operating expenditure: an outlay of funds by the firm resulting in benefits received within 1 year. Capital budgeting process: five distinct but interrelated steps: proposal generation: proposals for new investment projects, review and analysis, decision making, implementation: expenditures are made and projects implemented, follow-up: actual costs compared with expected. Independent projects: projects whose cash flows are unrelated to one another. Mutually exclusive projects: projects that compete with one another so that the acceptance of one eliminates from further consideration all other projects that serve a similar function.

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