OBJECTIVE: To apply the principles and techniques learned in this course to a specific, real-world problem involving the economic evaluation and justification of a prospective capital expenditure. Your project must show some financial benefit /profit.

PROPOSAL: A company that can be real or one you would like to own needs to be described in detail. Please include:

Company History - founder(s), beginnings and how they have grown

Who are your customers?

What "industry / industries" are you in?

A current "problem" the company faces that can be solved with the purchase of a business asset and its approximate cost.

The business asset must meet the following requirements:

It must be used for business purposes to produce income.

It must have a useful life that can be determined, and the useful life must be longer than one year.

It must be an asset that decays, gets used up, wears out, becomes obsolete, or loses value to the owner from natural causes.

Examples of non business assets are: labor (increasing work force size), inventory (increasing product inventory for sales), marketing budget increase. Do NOT use any of these for your project.