Difficulties faced in capital budgeting
– Uncertainty of variables e.g annual cash flows, discounting rates, changes in technology, inflation rate, changes in tax rates etc.
– Lack of adequate capital to undertake all viable profits (capital rationing)
– Lack of adequate information on the available investment opportunities e.g in case of mutually exclusive profits NPV and IRR will have conflict in banking of profits under some circumstances.
– Identification of all the quantifiable and non quantifiable costs and benefits association with a project.