Capital budgeting in Europe: Confronting theory with practice

International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 341-356

  Rossi, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Internal rate of return; IRR; Net present value; NPV; Payback period; WAAC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928985201     PISSN: 17536715     EISSN: 17536723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMFA.2014.066403     Document Type: Article

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