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Evaluating Business Investments Print Email Become our 1st fan on Facebook! Part 1 Introduction , Capital Budgeting , Capital Budgeting Models , Evaluating a Capital Expenditures , Noncash - Nondiscounted Part 2 Cash Flows (CF) , Nondiscounted CF Model , Discounted CF Models , Present Value Calculation Introduction to Evaluating Business Investments We also have Drills , Puzzles , and Q&A for the topic Evaluating Business Investments . Businesses often face the need to spend large amounts of money on assets that will be functional for many years. Here are a few examples: Equipment to improve an unsafe work situation or to protect the environment Equipment to test the consistency of products as required by the customer Equipment to package, label, and ship products according to the customer’s specifications Equipment to reduce labor costs and improve the quality of products Purchase of a building instead of leasing space Expenditures made fo...

W 2: Investment Decisions Like all other companies Cameron Balloons are continually re-assessing their production methods to ensure they remain as productive as possible. A part of this process is to assess whether investment has to be made in new production technologies. In the case of Cameron's this choice is illustrated by the decision over whether to mechanise the cutting process. Why not have a go at this worksheet to see what you would do? N.B. For reasons of commercial sensitivity, the figures given are not necessarily the ones Cameron's may precisely face. A printable version of this worksheet is available for filling in answers. Step 1 - How do we decide? The fabric for the balloon envelopes is currently cut on cutting tables by hand. See the explanation of production for more detail on this. There are now moving-bed cutters available that will automate this process, and cut the fabric according to computer templates. There are two main types of cutter -...

The boost in sales for Starlight Ltd's range of dark chocolates had been unexpected. The report linking dark chocolate with chemicals that protect the heart seemed to have had an unexpected benefit and turned many consumers towards the natural organic chocolate produced by the firm. Market research suggested that this was not going to be a short-term fad and forecasts of future sales were healthy. The Board had decided to accept the recommendation of the sales and production team and invest in a new piece of equipment for the production line that would automate some of the work currently carried out by staff on the line. Those staff could be better utilised elsewhere in the plant and, in addition, it would speed up the production and help meet the expected demand. Title: Dark Chocolate Shown To Boost Heart-Protecting Antioxidants in the Blood. Copyright: Getty Images, available from Education Image Gallery . The investigations into the supplier of such a piece of equipment h...

Investment management is about attaining investment objectives under specified constraints; for example, achieving the best possible return for a given level of risk. To meet these objectives, the investor may buy equity in an asset such a stock, a fund, or real estate, or buy debt issued by governments and corporations. By effectively managing such investments the investment manager can achieve a higher return for a specified acceptable level of risk. There are many tools for reaching this goal. Expected Return and Portfolio Variance The two basic metrics for an investment portfolio are the return and the variance. In the case of an individual dividend-paying stock, the return is given by: R i = [(P 1 + D 1 ) / P 0 ] - 1, where D 1 is the dividend paid at time t = 1. The future return of a stock or a portfolio is not known with certainty; there are different probabilites for different return scenarios, one of which actually will unfold. Given n possible return scenarios, ...