Explain The Processes And Problems Of Making A Domestic Capital Investment Decision If You Are An Owner

1. Explain the processes and problems of making a domestic capital investment decision if you are an owner -manager with no diversified assets

2. Discuss how your answer might change were your company to be taken over by a fully diversified owner that retains you as manager.

2000 words

This is a complicated question, I can provide some help in the structure.

1.Introduction- What are capital investments? Domestic capital investment vs International capital investments (their differences, different factors)

2.Concentrated portfolios vs Diversified Portfolios

3.The process of capital investment. 4 categories of this process: 1. determination of a budget 2. search and screening of investment 3. Evaluation 4. Monitoring and control

4. Process and problems of Owner-Manager carrying out capital investment decisions. (Talk about the 4 categories and how managers handle them for example for search and screening of investment look at the concept of risk aversion, this is important as it provides the main difference for owner manager vs company taken over. For Evaluation use WACC, NPV analysis, IRR to show how it can be evaluated. For monitoring and control pull up examples and theories of how its been done before.

5. Conclusion

Links for help:

 

· Schall, L. and Sundem, G. (1980). Capital Budgeting Methods and Risk: A Further Analysis. Financial Management, 9(1), pp.7-11.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capital-investment.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capm.asp [Accessed 22 Nov. 2018].

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/JECE.39.1.78-87