Capital Budgeting Practices in India

This study reports the results of surveys of the capital budgeting techniques of BSE 500 companies in India. The results of the study indicate the prevalent use of the IRR and the payback method as primary and secondary criterion. This is consistent to the proposition that the theory-practice gap ha...

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Main Author: Soni, Kashyap
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20746/
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description This study reports the results of surveys of the capital budgeting techniques of BSE 500 companies in India. The results of the study indicate the prevalent use of the IRR and the payback method as primary and secondary criterion. This is consistent to the proposition that the theory-practice gap has narrowed in recent years. The survey questionnaires included topics such as use of capital budgeting decisions and risk analysis techniques. As for the non financial criteria, 54% of the companies considered strategic alignment as an important factor in making investment decisions. Comparatively new techniques like EVA have found a few users compared to other complex techniques like Real Options and Monte Carlo Simulations. A comparison with past studies conducted around the world is also made to analyze differences in practices.
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spelling nottingham-207462018-01-09T22:02:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20746/ Capital Budgeting Practices in India Soni, Kashyap This study reports the results of surveys of the capital budgeting techniques of BSE 500 companies in India. The results of the study indicate the prevalent use of the IRR and the payback method as primary and secondary criterion. This is consistent to the proposition that the theory-practice gap has narrowed in recent years. The survey questionnaires included topics such as use of capital budgeting decisions and risk analysis techniques. As for the non financial criteria, 54% of the companies considered strategic alignment as an important factor in making investment decisions. Comparatively new techniques like EVA have found a few users compared to other complex techniques like Real Options and Monte Carlo Simulations. A comparison with past studies conducted around the world is also made to analyze differences in practices. 2006 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20746/1/06MAlixks10.pdf Soni, Kashyap (2006) Capital Budgeting Practices in India. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) capital budgeting investment appraisal NPV IRR payback period capital budgeting in India budgeting techniques
spellingShingle capital budgeting
investment appraisal
NPV
IRR
payback period
capital budgeting in India
budgeting techniques
Soni, Kashyap
Capital Budgeting Practices in India
title Capital Budgeting Practices in India
title_full Capital Budgeting Practices in India
title_fullStr Capital Budgeting Practices in India
title_full_unstemmed Capital Budgeting Practices in India
title_short Capital Budgeting Practices in India
title_sort capital budgeting practices in india
topic capital budgeting
investment appraisal
NPV
IRR
payback period
capital budgeting in India
budgeting techniques
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20746/