Capital Asset Investment

A balanced and practical approach to capital management and budgeting
Capital Management and Strategic Financial Decision-Making offers a detailed discussion of the theory, quantitative methods, and applications of capital budgeting. Comprehensive in scope, all the major topics in the field of capital investment are covered, including the various approaches to capital project evaluation. Financial managers and business leaders planning future strategies will look to this book for a helping hand in making long-term financial decisions.
Anthony F. Herbst, PhD (El Paso, TX), teaches at the University of Texas, El Paso. He was a founding editor of the Journal of Financial Engineering and is the author of Analyzing and Forecasting Futures Prices (Wiley: 0471533122).
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Preface. Acknowledgments.
Introduction: The big picture, environment, terminology, and preview.
The objective of capital budgeting.
Estimating basic project characteristics.
Cost of capital.
Traditional methods that ignore time-value of money.
Traditional methods that recognize time-value of money: the net present value.
Traditional methods that recognize time-value of money: the internal rate of return.
Reinvestment rate assumptions for NPV and IRR and conflicting rankings.
The MAPI method.
The problem of mixed cash flows: I.
The problem of mixed cash flows: II.
Appendix: The problem of mixed cash flows III-a two-stage method of analysis.
Leasing.
Appendix.
Leveraged leases.
Alternative investment measures.
Project abandonment analysis.
Multiple project capital budgeting.
Appendix to multiple project capital budgeting.
Utility and risk aversion.
Single project analysis under risk.
Multiple project selection under risk: computer simulation and other approaches.
Multiple project selection under risk: portfolio approaches.
The capital asset pricing model.
Multiple project selection under risk.
Real options.
Appendix: Financial mathematics tables and formulas.
Bibliography.
Index.