The Capital Budgeting Decision

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.