Capital Budgeting: the process of planning for purchases of long-term assets. example Our firm must decide whether to purchase a new plastic molding machine for $127,000 How do we decide? Will the machine be profitable? Will our firm earn a high rate of return on the investment?
Where we've been. Basic Skills:(Time value of money, Financial Statements) Investments: (Stocks, Bonds, Risk and Return) Corporate Finance: (The Investment Decision- Capital Budgeting)
Working-Capital Management Current assets cash, marketable securities, inventory accounts receivable Long- Term Assets equipment, buildings, land Which earn higher rates of return? Which help avoid risk of illiquidity?