Identify four reasons that capital budgeting decisions by managers are risky.

Identify four reasons that capital budgeting decisions by managers are risky.

Capital expenditures include replacing equipment in order to allow the company to reduce manufacturing costs, while expanding manufacturing production with the end result an increased value to the corporate bottom line. In the manufacture of a new product, much additional cost is marketplace. In order to put a new item out there, we must constantly improve the quality of it, and also the related services which come attached with this new item. With the new product, increases arrive in production costs and the payroll costs might have to increase in direct proportion to this new item.

1. Identify four reasons that capital budgeting decisions by managers are risky.

2. Why is an investment more attractive to management if it has a shorter payback period?

3. Why should managers set the required rate of return higher than the rate at which money can be borrowed when making a typical capital budgeting decision?

4. Why does the use of the accelerated depreciation method (instead of straight line) for income tax reporting increase an investment’s value?

After you’ve completed the questions above, please provide a brief explanation of how this information is important in managerial decision making.

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