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In reality, a company must estimate [...] costs of capital.
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project-specific

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#cfa-level-1 #corporate-finance #reading-36-cost-of-capital #study-session-11
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In reality, a company must estimate [...] costs of capital.
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#cfa-level-1 #corporate-finance #reading-36-cost-of-capital #study-session-11
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In reality, a company must estimate [...] costs of capital.
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project-specific
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1. INTRODUCTION
ital is a central issue in corporate financial management. For the analyst seeking to evaluate a company’s investment program and its competitive position, an accurate estimate of a company’s cost of capital is important as well. <span>Cost of capital estimation is a challenging task. As we have already implied, the cost of capital is not observable but, rather, must be estimated. Arriving at a cost of capital estimate requires a host of assumptions and estimates. Another challenge is that the cost of capital that is appropriately applied to a specific investment depends on the characteristics of that investment: The riskier the investment’s cash flows, the greater its cost of capital. In reality, a company must estimate project-specific costs of capital. What is often done, however, is to estimate the cost of capital for the company as a whole and then adjust this overall corporate cost of capital upward or downward to reflect the risk of the contemplated project relative to the company’s average project. This reading is organized as follows: In the next section, we introduce the cost of capital and its basic computation. Section 3 presents a selection of methods for estimat

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