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Capital Budgeting's objective is best practice capital investment decision-making. This means that we cover capital investment best practice end-to-end, from the conceptualisation of capital projects through to post-investment audit practices; from incremental cash flow recognition through to weighted average cost of capital determinations.

Philosophically too, we are often asked take a broader view of what we mean by a capital investment decision, considering what are really investments are sometimes expensed as operating costs, particularly for high tech companies or those where traditional bricks and mortar capital are only a small part of the “capital” that is leveraged to create shareholder value. Our approach is conditioned by shareholder value considerations and reflects a management accounting approach.

For many companies, the major asset they manage never makes it onto the balance sheet. Managing to a balance sheet can destroy shareholder value.
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Capital budgeting analysts can bluff themselves that a company or division has added value when all they really have done is demonstrate that they have miss-measured the capital base and/or they have ignored self-insurance returns of the business. These mistakes have a mirror image in funds management where managers think they have made alpha return but all they really have done is get a reward for an un-measured risk.   more ...
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