Principles of Managerial Finance (14th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance)
Principles of Managerial Finance (14th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance)
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ISBN: 9780133507690
Author: Lawrence J. Gitman, Chad J. Zutter
Publisher: PEARSON
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Country U’s firms struggled to keep their weighted average cost of capital after the recession and financial crisis on 2008 and 2009. There is a chance to make economically unjustified investment if the firm underestimates the cost of capital. The uncertainty in the cost of capital resulted in making short-term cost of capital and long-term cost of capital.

Firms began to use short-term cost of capital for short-term opportunities and long-term cost of capital for long-term opportunities.

To determine: Why firms cannot use both short-run and long-run weighted average costs of capital.

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