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The Purpose of A Project May Be To
The Purpose of A Project May Be To
– Grow the firm causing future sales, profits, and cash flows to
increase; includes typical expansion projects.
– An incremental basis
– An after-tax basis
– Indirect effects should be included
– Costs should be measured as opportunity costs and not based
upon historical or sunk costs
Project Cash Flows
• The capital budgeting decision is essentially
based upon a cost/benefit analysis.
– Sales revenue
– – Operating expenses
– – Depreciation