The NPV and IRR Methods, When Used to Evaluate Two

question 34

True/False

The NPV and IRR methods, when used to evaluate two equally risky but mutually exclusive projects, will lead to different accept/reject decisions and thus capital budgets if the cost of capital at which the projects' NPV profiles cross is less than the projects' cost of capital.

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Activity Base

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Service Departments

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