Capital Asset Investment: Strategy, Tactics and Tools

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: The big picture, environment, terminology, and preview.

The objective of capital budgeting.

Estimating basic project characteristics.

Cost of capital.

Traditional methods that ignore time-value of money.

Traditional methods that recognize time-value of money: the net present value.

Traditional methods that recognize time-value of money: the internal rate of return.

Reinvestment rate assumptions for NPV and IRR and conflicting rankings.

The MAPI method.

The problem of mixed cash flows: I.

The problem of mixed cash flows: II.

Appendix: The problem of mixed cash flows III—a two-stage method of analysis.

Leasing.

Appendix.

Leveraged leases.

Alternative investment measures.

Project abandonment analysis.

Multiple project capital budgeting.

Appendix to multiple project capital budgeting.

Utility and risk aversion.

Single project analysis under risk.

Multiple project selection under risk: computer simulation and other approaches.

Multiple project selection under risk: portfolio approaches.

The capital asset pricing model.

Multiple project selection under risk.

Real options.

Appendix: Financial mathematics tables and formulas.

Bibliography.

Index.