The drive for reform in the public sector worldwide has focussed attention on the measurement of public sector organisations' performance. This is particularly true in local government. Local government has traditionally been concerned with measuring the delivery of primary objectives, or...

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Most finance textbooks suggest that companies evaluate investment projects using discount rates that reflect both the debt capacity and the unique risks of the project. In practice, however, companies often use their company-wide WACC to evaluate such investments because of the difficulty of...