A firm is considering the purchase of an asset whose risk is lower than the current risk of the firm, based on any method for assessing risk. In evaluating this asset, the decision maker should

Question 7 options:

	Increase the IRR of the asset to reflect the greater risk.
	Lower the cost of capital used to evaluate the project to reflect the lower risk of the project.
	Reject the asset, since its acceptance would increase the risk of the firm.
	Ignore the risk differential if the asset to be accepted would comprise only a small fraction of the total assets of the firm.
	Increase the cost of capital used to evaluate the project to reflect the higher risk of the project.