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Your company provides catering services throughout the United States. As part of the company’s growth strategy,...

Your company provides catering services throughout the United States. As part of the company’s growth strategy, they plan on acquiring businesses which complement the catering service by providing full service restaurants.

  1. Explain the capital investment analysis methods they should use to determine their choices of capital investments.
  2. Explain which methods will assist in determining whether to continue to analyze the investment decisions.
  3. Explain which method you would recommend they use to ensure the investment is right for the company.

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