Assuming That Their NPVs Based on the Firm's Cost of Capital

question 42

True/False

Assuming that their NPVs based on the firm's cost of capital are equal, the NPV of a project whose cash flows accrue relatively rapidly will be more sensitive to changes in the discount rate than the NPV of a project whose cash flows come in later in its life.

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Probability Distribution

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Retries

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Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of values, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Standard Deviation

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