economic appraisal

economic appraisal
A method of capital budgeting that makes use of discounted cash flow techniques to determine a preferred investment. However, instead of using annual projected cash flows in the analysis, the technique discounts over the project's life the expected annual economic costs and economic benefits It is mainly used in the assessment of governmental or quasi-governmental projects, such as road, railway, and port developments.

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  • economic costs — The projected costs revealed by an economic appraisal. Economic costs differ from financial costs in that they exclude the transfer payments within the economy, which arise when an investment is made. In the construction of a road, for example,… …   Accounting dictionary

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