SAFETY MARGINS AND CAPITAL BUDGETING CRITERIA
Abstract
Textbooks often portray capital budgeting as a rather mechanical process: Top management decides whether or not to accept a project by requesting an estimate of net present value from its staff and to see if the number is positive or negative. This paper suggests that the textbook net present value rule is not optimal if the competitive market assumption holds. Better decision rules state minimum acceptable safety margins and may take the form of stating a minimum acceptable profitability ratio.
Citation
Miller, E.M. (1988), "SAFETY MARGINS AND CAPITAL BUDGETING CRITERIA", Managerial Finance, Vol. 14 No. 2/3, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013595
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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