capital budgeting


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capital budgeting

[′kap·ət·əl ′bəj·əd·iŋ]
(industrial engineering)
Planning the most effective use of resources to obtain the highest possible level of sustained profits.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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