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  2. Capital budgeting - Wikipedia

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    Capital budgeting in corporate finance, corporate planning and accounting is an area of capital management that concerns the planning process used to determine whether an organization's long term capital investments such as new machinery, replacement of machinery, new plants, new products, and research development projects are worth the funding of cash through the firm's capitalization ...

  3. Capital formation - Wikipedia

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    "Total capital formation" in national accounting equals net fixed capital investment, plus the increase in the value of inventories held, plus (net) lending to foreign countries, during an accounting period (a year or a quarter). Capital is said to be "formed" when savings are utilized for investment purposes, often investment in production.

  4. Capital expenditure - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In accounting, a capital expenditure is added to an asset account, thus increasing the asset's basis (the cost or value of an asset adjusted for tax purposes). Capex is commonly found on the cash flow statement under "Investment in Plant, Property, and Equipment" or something similar in the Investing subsection. [citation needed]

  5. Capital (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In economics, capital goods or capital are "those durable produced goods that are in turn used as productive inputs for further production" of goods and services. [1] A typical example is the machinery used in a factory. At the macroeconomic level, "the nation's capital stock includes buildings, equipment, software, and inventories during a ...

  6. Investment - Wikipedia

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    Investment is traditionally defined as the "commitment of resources to achieve later benefits". If an investment involves money, then it can be defined as a ...

  7. Capital gains vs. investment income: How they differ - AOL

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    In contrast, investment income consists of payments such as dividends and interest as well as realized capital gains. How these sources of income are taxed differs, too.

  8. Cost of equity - Wikipedia

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    A firm's overall cost of capital, which consists of the two types of capital costs, is then determined as the weighted average cost of capital. Knowing a firm's cost of capital is needed in order to make better decisions. Managers make capital budgeting decisions while capital providers make decisions about lending and investment. Such ...

  9. Capital cost - Wikipedia

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    Capital costs are fixed, one-time expenses incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction, and equipment used in the production of goods or in the rendering of services. In other words, it is the total cost needed to bring a project to a commercially operable status.