All of the Following Statements Are Correct EXCEPT

question 26

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements are correct EXCEPT:

• A)Capital budgeting analysis is a framework for evaluating all business decisions; it is not only a tool for the "financial" types.
• B)Proper analysis will identify relevant cash flows and an appropriate discount rate to reflect the risk of the strategy and will compare the benefits and costs of the project by considering the time value of money.
• C)Whether the investment is one in a business strategy, building a new warehouse, seeking fuel efficient methods of doing business, upgrading information technology systems, or investing in human resources, we should not try to quantify the benefits and cost of these choices in order to evaluate them properly.
• D)To achieve success over time, a firm's managers must identify and invest in projects that provide positive net present values to maximize shareholder wealth.
• E)all of the above statements are correct

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Definitions:

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A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming that these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

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The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, quantified as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

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Poisson Distribution

A distribution quantifying the chances of a specific amount of occurrences happening within a set period or spatial region.