Investment Decisions in Small Business

How to choose the investment that will give the best return is a problem faced by all businessmen. Yet for the small businessman in particular, the literature on capital budgeting intended to help him in his investment decisions seems not to apply to his actual situation. Here in this study, theory and practice are brought together within the context of small business.

Author Martin B. Solomon Jr. compares two theoretically sound formulas—present value and the discounted rate of return—with ...