Companies must be able to adapt and evolve if they wish to survive in the highly competitive marketplace today. Businesses operate with the knowledge that their competitors will inevitably come to the market with a product that changes the basis of competition. The ability to change and adapt...

This paper sets forth a capital budgeting technique that is both theoretically correct and sensitive to the special financing needs of the small business. This technique involves evaluating cash flows and determining if they are sufficient to meet the loan payment schedule. A sufficient amount...

In a world where greenhouse gases (GHG) carry a price, organisations can create financial instruments that are tradable on the carbon market by investing in projects that reduce GHG emissions. The purpose of this study is to critically analyse an investment project from EcoSecurities to mitigate...

The students all over the world, many a times, encounter the question - Are education costs worth the degree? To answer this, Actuarial sciences major undergraduate degree at US based Ivy League University, in-state public university and out-of state public university was evaluated. Based upon...

Este es material de curso del libro Decisiones Empresariales bajo Riesgo e Incertidumbre. El nivel del libro es basico. Se usan muy pocas matematicas y puede ser usado por gerentes. En este decimo y ultimo capitulo se presenta una breve y sencilla introduccion a las opciones financieras y al...

Este es material de curso del libro Decisiones Empresariales bajo Riesgo e Incertidumbre. El nivel del libro es basico. Se usan muy pocas matematicas y puede ser usado por gerentes. En este segundo capitulo se tratan el concepto basico en finanzas: el valor del dinero en el tiempo. Un dola hoy...

The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure to include the implicit assumptions of Net Present Value NPV in the Internal Rate of Return, IRR, and the profitability index (benefit-cost ratio B/CR). The resulting indicators are the weighted IRR (WIRR) and the expanded B/CR (EB/CR). These...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: the first purpose is to tell a naive history of an experience in constructing knowledge. In this first part I tell how I approached the process to solve the inconsistency between the net present value, NPV, the internal rate of return, IRR and the...

This paper sets forth a capital budgeting technique that is both theoretically correct and sensitive to the special financing needs of the small business. This technique involves evaluating cash flows and determining if they are sufficient to meet the loan payment schedule. A sufficient amount...

En Vélez-Pareja y Tham (2001), presentamos diferentes maneras de valorar los flujos de caja. Primero se utilizó el costo promedio ponderado de capital (CPPC) (Weighted Average Cost of Capital, WACC) para descontar el flujo de caja libre (FCL). Segundo, se descontó el FCL con el WACC ajustado....