Using the Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate Approach, Projects with High Coefficients

question 77

Multiple Choice

Using the risk-adjusted discount rate approach, projects with high coefficients of variation will have ________ net present values than projects with low coefficients of variation and similar cash flows.

• A) somewhat higher
• B) substantially higher
• C) lower
• D) either somewhat higher or substantially higher

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