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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

Estimating the rate at which to discount the cash flows — the cost of equity capital — is an integral part of the exercise, and the choice of rate has a significant effect on estimates of a project's or a company's value. The same is true for the CAPM. ". McNulty et al.

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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

Many are deeply uncertain about which initiatives they should fund — and one root of this indecision is a general lack of confidence in the cost of capital projections they are using to make the call. Fully 79 percent of companies, including 91 percent with annual revenues greater than $1 billion, use discounted cash flow techniques.