Capital budgeting
Capital budgeting is the whole process of analyzing projects and deciding whether they should be included in the capital budget.
Definitions
According to Financial Management Theory and Practice by Eugene F. Brigham and Michael C. Ehrhardt (13th edition),
- Capital budgeting. The whole process of analyzing projects and deciding whether they should be included in the capital budget.
According to Fundamentals of Financial Management by Eugene F. Brigham and Joel F. Houston (15th edition),
- Capital budgeting. The process of planning expenditures on assets with cash flows that are expected to extend beyond 1 year.
Related concepts
- Financial management. A combination of enterprise efforts undertaken in order to procure and utilize monetary resources of the enterprise.
