Firms Should Use Their Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)

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Firms should use their weighted average cost of capital (WACC) when they are funding their capital projects with a variety of sources. However, when the firm plans on using only debt or only equity to fund a particular project, it should use the after-tax cost of the specific source of capital to evaluate that project.

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Base Year

A specific year against which economic growth or other financial figures are measured and compared.

Paasche Index

An index used to measure price level changes over time by comparing the current price of a basket of goods to its price in a base year, weighting the current period quantities.

Current-Year Prices

Prices of goods and services measured during the same year of analysis, not adjusted for inflation.

Base-Year Quantities

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