August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
3h 14m
English
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Net present value (NPV) is one of a group of topics often referred to as capital budgeting. It isn’t often viewed as a cost-volume-profit technique. In this method, we will calculate a cost or a value, which we will call the indifference point. Typically, an organization is faced with deciding between two alternatives, each of which will have the same result to the organization (hence, the indifference). Sometimes, one application of this method is called the outsource decision (or the make-or-buy decision).
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