Long-term investment decisions are critical to the success of a business. What products and services should be developed, maintained, or dropped? Where should we locate our plants, warehouses, and outlets? Should we automate a manufacturing process? These and other questions come down to measuring the incremental revenue generation and/or cost savings against the outlay required for the investment. Time value concepts and risk management are critical to the decision-making process. In turn, that involves consideration of the economy, interest rates, inflation, labor force, supply chain, political factors, regulatory issues, and more. Your initial post in this forum should address a current issue that relates to any of these topics