Improved capital budgeting decision making: Evidence from Canada

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-247

  Bennouna, Karim ^a   Meredith, Geoffrey G ^b   Marchant, Teresa ^b  

^a Kubota Canada ^*  (Canada)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canada; Capital budgeting; Decision making; Discounted cash flow; Investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949321800     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011022590     Document Type: Article

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