Beta and Capital Budgeting

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Beta and Capital Budgeting

Part 1: Beta

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1. Search for the beta of your company (Group Project)

2. In addition, find the beta of 3 different companies within the same industry as your company (Group Project).

3. Explain to your classmates what beta means and how it can be used for managerial and/or investment decision

4. Why do you think the beta of your company (individual project) and those of the 3 companies you found are different from each other? Provide as much information as you can and be specific.

Part 2: Capital Budgeting

Before you respond to Part 2 of discussion 6 review the following information on Capital Budgeting Techniques

Capital Budgeting Decision Methods

CAPITAL BUDGETING (PRINCIPLES & TECHNIQUES)

To avoid damaging its market value, each company must use the correct discount rate to evaluate its projects. Review and discuss the following:

• Compare and contrast the internal rate of return approach to the net present value approach. Which is better? Support your answer with well-reasoned arguments and examples.

• Is the ultimate goal of most companies--maximizing the wealth of the owners for whom the firm is being operated--ethical? Why or why not?

• Why might ethical companies benefit from a lower cost of capital than less ethical companies?

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