The discount factor of a company is the rate of return that a capital expenditure project must meet to be accepted. It is used to calculate the net present value of future cash flows from a project ...

Family business disputes oftentimes uncover who is actually calling the shots and making a big difference in the profitability of a company. As described in previous Shareholder Rights blogs, the ...

On October 31, 2018 at 4:15 pm in Pettengill G21, Thomas Cosimano, Professor Emeritus of Finance at Universtiy of Notre Dame presented his talk on “Discount Rates and Monetary Policy.” Paper ...

The Journal of Business, Vol. 79, No. 2 (March 2006), pp. 941-961 (21 pages) In this paper, we construct a new variance bound on any stochastic discount factor (SDF) of the form \documentclass{aastex} ...

The basic business of banking involves taking money into certificates of deposit and checking and savings accounts and lending it out at higher interest rates while maintaining federally mandated ...

The Internal Revenue Service has published revenue procedures setting forth the discount factors that property and casualty insurance companies can use for accidents and other types of claims this ...