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Long-Term (Capital) Assets
What is capital budgeting? It is a systematic approach to evaluating an investment in long-term assets.
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Learning Objective 2
Year 4: $1.2155 Year 3: $1.1576 Year 2: $1.1025 Year 1: $1.05 Year 0: $1.00
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Present Value
What is the present value of money? It is the current monetary worth of an amount to be paid in the future under stated conditions of interest and compounding. Analysts call a future cash flow’s value at time zero its present value. The process of computing present value is called discounting.
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Accounting Rate of Return Criterion
What is the straight-line method annual depreciation? ($70,000 – $10,000) ÷5 = $12,000 What is the increased annual income? $20,000 – $12,000 = $8,000 What is the average investment? ($70,000 + $10,000) ÷2 = $40,000