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Annals of the University “Constantin Brâncuşi”of Tg-Jiu, No. 1/2008, Volume 3,<br />

ISSN: 1842-4856<br />

By analyzing the results obtained in stages, by applying these three methods, we conclude<br />

that the person making the decision goes from a categorical decision of rejecting the<br />

investment project, to decision of accepting it, reflected in the criteria of adjusted net present<br />

value and stock holders’ cash-flows method.<br />

We then ask the question when we must apply one or the other of these three methods.<br />

If the risk of the project remains constant for the entire life span of the project,<br />

obviously the capital cost rate will remain constant during this period of time. If the debt rate<br />

(and proportion) remains constant, then the rate of the weighted average cost of capital will<br />

remain constant, which makes it easier to apply the method of the weighted average cost of<br />

capital method and the stockholders’ cash-flows method.<br />

As a matter of fact, the firm must propose, fro the investment projects, a debt target<br />

rate, which must be identical with the existent financing structure of the enterprise, so as not<br />

to modify the risks associated with debt. We thereby recommend the use of the weighted<br />

average cost of capital method and the stockholders’ cash-flows methods.<br />

If the amount of the debt is known for the entire life span of the project, then the method<br />

of the adjusted net present value is easier to apply. But this method is frequently used in the<br />

following cases:<br />

- when a valorized interest rate exists;<br />

- when the firm gets the right to use the machines through leasing;<br />

- if the sale of the firm is done by LBO method (leveraged buyout, buying the firm from<br />

a small group of investors by a loan to be reimbursed based on the cash-flows generated by<br />

the firm’s activity and/or by selling some of the actives), a case in which the degree of debt is<br />

very high, but the reimbursement plan is known.<br />

Bibliography<br />

1. Berceanu, D. The Firm’s Financial Decisions, 2nd edition, Universitaria<br />

2. Ross, S.A.<br />

Westerfield, R.W.<br />

Jaffe, J.F.<br />

3. Sichigea, N.<br />

Giurcă, L.<br />

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Corporate finance, Dunod Publishing House, Paris, 2005<br />

Corporate finance, Universitaria Publishing House, Craiova,<br />

2007<br />

4. Stancu, I. Finances, 3rd Edition, Economical Publishing House,<br />

Bucharest, 2002<br />

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