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Functional and Behavioral Application
Author(s) -
Lewellen Wilbur G.,
Long Michael S.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1972.tb01665.x
Subject(s) - point (geometry) , cash flow , discounted cash flow , computer science , value (mathematics) , capital budgeting , operations research , econometrics , actuarial science , risk analysis (engineering) , economics , microeconomics , business , finance , mathematics , machine learning , geometry , project appraisal
Simulation techniques have been recommended in the recent literature as vehicles for improving the analysis of the corporate capital budgeting decision. Such techniques are alleged to provide more helpful measures of both return and risk than do single‐point discounted cash flow estimates of project worth. This contention is challenged here. The conclusion is reached that the information provided by simulation is, at best, no better than is generated by the traditional single‐point present value approach and, in one very important respect, is markedly inferior.