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 ...
Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...
A discount rate is a percentage rate that investors use to measure the value of future cash flows in today's dollars. A discount rate has a wide variety of applications in terms of analyzing ...