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An Empirical Insight into Different Stages of Capital Budgeting

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  • Roopali Batra

    (Roopali Batra, Faculty in Management, Apeejay Institute of Management Technical Campus, Rama Mandi, Jalandhar - 144007, Punjab. E-mail: roopalibatra@rediffmail.com)

  • Satish Verma

    (Satish Verma, Professor, RBI Chair, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Sector 19-A, Madhya Marg, Chandigarh - 160019. E-mail: sv_gndu@yahoo.co.in)

Abstract

In today’s highly turbulent and volatile business environment where companies are exposed to a multitude of risks, only globally competitive and professionally managed companies can thrive and grow. In such a competitive environment, the capital budgeting decisions made by a company are critical to a firm’s long-term survival. Is the Indian corporate sector using theoretically sound and sophisticated capital budgeting techniques for decision making purposes? Are the Indian firms adopting risk analysis techniques for handling various risks in investments? These issues have been the focus of research studies over the past so many years. The most prevalent emphasis of previous capital budgeting surveys continues to be mainly on financial analysis and project selection stage of capital budgeting. The article reviews the past capital budgeting survey literature till the year 2012 and brings to light some of the neglected areas of capital budgeting. It is noticed that project definition and cash flow estimation (identification and development) (Stage I), project implementation (Stage III) and project review (post audit and control) (Stage IV) are the specifically neglected areas of the capital budgeting process. Further Indian studies encompassing the overall stages of capital budgeting process still remain relatively unexplored. The main aim of the present study is to not only provide an insight on the past literature, but also explore the CFOs opinions and perceptions about the relative difficulty and significance of different stages of capital budgeting in India, particularly in an era of full-fledged globalization and cutthroat competition, where companies are being exposed to various degrees of risk. The study is based on a primary survey of CFOs of 77 Indian companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange. The study further endeavours to evaluate the impact of different company related variables of size of capital budget, nature of industry, company age, CEO education and CEO age on the level of difficulty of different stages of capital budgeting.

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  • Roopali Batra & Satish Verma, 2014. "An Empirical Insight into Different Stages of Capital Budgeting," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 15(2), pages 339-362, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:globus:v:15:y:2014:i:2:p:339-362
    DOI: 10.1177/0972150914523588
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