The capital budgeting manager of Conscientious Production Company (CPC) submitted the following report to the CFO: CPC

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The manager of Conscientious Production Company (CPC) submitted the following report to the CFO:

The capital budgeting manager of Conscientious Production Company (CPC) submitted

CPC generally takes risk into consideration by adjusting its average required rate of return (r), which equals 9 percent, when evaluating projects with risks that are either lower or higher than average. A 5 percent adjustment is made for high-risk projects, and a 2 percent adjustment is made for low-risk projects. If these projects are independent, which one(s) should CPCpurchase?

Capital Budgeting
Capital budgeting is a practice or method of analyzing investment decisions in capital expenditure, which is incurred at a point of time but benefits are yielded in future usually after one year or more, and incurred to obtain or improve the...