Unit II Research Paper
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Write a paper on one of the major topics listed below and
incorporate at least five other related empirical studies of
your choice:
? Research the topic of opportunity cost of capital. When
writing your paper, be sure to answer the following questions, in addition to providing any other information
you wish to include. What are opportunity costs and their benefit? What is net present value? Can it ever be
negative? Discuss at least two types of alternative investment criteria and how they are used by managers to
make decisions?
? Research the topic of capital budgeting. When writing your
paper, be sure to answer the following questions, in addition to providing any other information you wish to
include. Discuss at least two types of alternative investment criteria and how they are used by managers to
make decisions? Why are discounted cash flow
methods of making capital budgeting decisions superior to
other methods?
? Research the topic of accounting’s role in an
organization’s architecture. When writing your paper, be sure to answer the following questions, in addition to providing any
other information you wish to include. What is accounting’s role in an organization’s structure? Does it
extend behind the brick and mortar? What are executive compensation contracts? How are they accounted
for?
? Research the topic of basic building blocks and agency
cost. When writing your paper, be sure to answer the following questions, in addition to providing any other
information you wish to include. How are agency costs generated, and what limits them? How are self-interested
behavior, team production, and agency costs related to each other? What is the common thread? How do they serve
as the building blocks of managerial accounting?
