A positive analysis of corporate capital budgeting practices

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-257

  Binder, John J ^a   Chaput, J Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Discounted cash flow methods; Discounting methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644907608     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00245183     Document Type: Article

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