What is capital budgeting, and what is its goal? Why is NPV the primary capital budgeting decision criterion ? How does the cost of capital impact the NPV capital budgeting decision? What is the differentiation between independent and mutually exclusive projects? Research and find a company's capital budgeting project which failed. (The project could have been a new product or store concept which was developed or even an acquisition of another company). Per the article's information, why did the product or acquisition fail? Hint: To aid in your research, search the web for "consumer product failures" and also "worst acquisition failures