The misapplication of capital investment appraisal techniques

Management Decision

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 86-93

  Drury, Colin ^a   Tayles, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Capital expenditure; Capital investment; Discounted cash flow; Investment analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846057352     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749710160223     Document Type: Article

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