January 2018
Beginner
976 pages
142h 14m
English
LG1
In our discussion of capital budgeting thus far, we have assumed that a firm’s investment projects all have the same risk, which implies that the acceptance of any project would not change the firm’s overall risk. In actuality, these assumptions often do not hold: Projects are not equally risky, and undertaking a major new investment can increase or decrease the firm’s overall risk. We begin this chapter by relaxing these assumptions and focusing on how managers evaluate the risks of different projects. Naturally, we will use many of the risk concepts developed in Chapter 8.
We continue the Bennett Company example from Chapter 10. The relevant cash flows and NPVs for Bennett Company’s two ...
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