Firms Should Adjust for Execution Risk By

question 20

Multiple Choice

Firms should adjust for execution risk by:

• A)assigning a higher cost of capital to new projects.
• B)ignoring execution risk since it is diversifiable.
• C)capturing this risk in the expected cash flows generated by the project.
• D)noticing missteps in the firm's execution of new projects.

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Definitions:

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