In: Economics
Explain two arguments about the benefits and/or negatives of having a separate capital budget (it may be two positive, two negative, or one each)
Merits:
- Efficient Planning Process: a separate capital budget would be focussing upon the long term projects like long term investment opportunities.
- A separate capital budget helps a firm to understand the risks involved in investing decisions. It tells the firm how these risks affect the return on the investment. In this way, the firm can make better-investing decisions and choose the projects wisely
Demerits:
- Decision made based on the separate capital budget are not reversible and can have long term impact
- Problems in quantifying risk and discount factors as such factors depend upon the qualitative aspects like investor's perception