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title: "Describe capital budgeting process"
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key: "semester_7/project_engineering:capital-budgeting-process-description"
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# Describe capital budgeting process

Project Engineering · Chapter 6: Introduction to Project Financing

- Asked in: 2078 Bhadra, 3 marks
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## Question

Describe the capital budgeting process.

## Short answer

The capital budgeting process includes identification of investment opportunities, screening, cash flow estimation, evaluation (payback, ARR, NPV, IRR, PI), selection and approval, financing and implementation, monitoring and control, and post-audit. It repeats for each proposal and must align with strategy and available funds.

## Answer

**Capital budgeting** is the process of planning, evaluating and selecting long-term investment projects whose benefits come over several years (such as a new plant, road or building), by comparing the cash outlay with the expected future returns.

The capital budgeting process:

1. **Identification of investment opportunities:** generate project ideas (new product, replacement, expansion).
2. **Screening and preliminary evaluation:** reject unsuitable ideas.
3. **Estimation of cash flows:** estimate initial cost, annual inflows, outflows and salvage value.
4. **Evaluation:** apply techniques (payback, ARR, NPV, IRR, PI).
5. **Selection and approval:** choose the best project(s) under budget; top management approves.
6. **Financing and implementation:** arrange funds, plan and execute.
7. **Monitoring and control:** compare actual with forecast and take action.
8. **Post-audit (review):** check the results and learn.

The process is repeated for each investment proposal, and the final choice must be consistent with the firm's strategy and available funds.

## Check yourself

The answer's key points as multiple-choice questions, with the correct option and why.

1. The first step of the capital budgeting process is:
   A. Post-audit
   B. Identification of investment opportunities
   C. Financing
   D. Monitoring
   Answer: B. The process begins by generating project ideas. (Key point: First step)

2. What happens in screening?
   A. Funds are released
   B. Cash flows are audited
   C. Unsuitable ideas are rejected after preliminary evaluation
   D. The project is implemented
   Answer: C. Screening rejects unsuitable ideas before detailed work. (Key point: Screening)

3. Estimation of cash flows includes:
   A. Only the initial cost
   B. Only annual profit
   C. Only tax
   D. Initial cost, annual inflows, outflows and salvage value
   Answer: D. All of these cash items are estimated for evaluation. (Key point: Cash flow estimates)

## Related in Project Engineering

- [Capital budgeting needs, steps, process](https://www.bctengineer.com/question.md?key=semester_7%2Fproject_engineering%3Acapital-budgeting-needs-steps-process) — Project Engineering, chapter 6
- [Finance sources; capital budgeting steps; NPV](https://www.bctengineer.com/question.md?key=semester_7%2Fproject_engineering%3Asources-project-finance-steps-capital-budgeting) — Project Engineering, chapter 6
- [Budgeting importance, types, capital budgeting](https://www.bctengineer.com/question.md?key=semester_7%2Fproject_engineering%3Abudgeting-importance-types-capital-budgeting) — Project Engineering, chapter 6
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