CHAPTER 12

Strategic Investment Decisions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:

images How are investment decisions impacted by the overall strategy of a company?

images How can the accounting rate of return (ARR) and payback methods be used to evaluate an investment decision?

images Why is the time value of money important to consider when looking at long-term investment decisions?

images How can both discounted cash flow methods (the net present value [NPV] method and the internal rate of return [IRR] method) be applied to evaluate investment decisions?

images Which method provides the most accurate assessment of an investment: ARR, payback, NPV, or IRR?

images What qualitative factors should be considered when making investment decisions?

images What risks are associated ...

Get Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making, Canadian Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.