In working out your responses to the Discussion Question, you should choose examples from your own experience or find appropriate cases on the Web that you can discuss. Credit will be given for references you make to relevant examples from real companies. Please make sure that you cite and reference all your outside sources $($including the article itself$)$ properly, as per the APA System.

After what you have learned this week from the textbook and journal article readings, evaluate the various capital budgeting methods that were discussed this week. If the net present value is the best criterion, why is it that about $25\%$ of CFOs do not use it and that more than half of them still rely on the payback period? How would these methods be applied to non$-$profit organizations, such as hospitals or government agencies and how should such organizations make capital budget decisions?