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Capital budgeting decisions are among the most important decisions a business owner or manager will ever make. Which assets to invest in, which products to develop, which markets to enter, whether to ...

The payback method of evaluating capital expenditure projects is very popular because it's easy to calculate and understand. It has severe limitations, however, and ignores many important factors that ...

What Is a Payback Period? The payback period is the amount of time (usually measured in years) it takes to recover an initial investment outlay—as measured in after-tax cash flows. For example, if a ...