WSP Ine. is involved in a wide range of unrelated projects. The company will pursue any project that it thinks will create value for its stockholders. Consequently, the risk level of the companiy's projects tends to vary a great deal from project to project. If WSP Inc. does not risk-adjust its discount rate for specific projects properly, which of the following is likely to occur over time? Check all that apply. The firm will reject too many relatively safe projects. The firm will make poor capital budgeting decisions that could jeopardize the ong-un viability of the company. The firm will become less risky. How do managers typically deal with within-firm risk and beta risk when they are evaluating a potential project? Quantitatively Subjectively Consider the case or another company. Kim Printing is evaluating two mutually exclusive pro ects. They both require a $3 million investment today and have expected NPVs of $600,000. Management conducted a full risk analysis of these two projects, and the results are shown below. Risk Measure Standard deviation of project's expected NPVs Project beta Correlation coefficient of project cash flows (relative to the firm's existing projects) 0.7 Project A Project B $240,000 120,000 0.9 11.7 Which of the following statements about these projects' risk is correct? Check all that apply. D Project B has more market risk than Project A Project A has more stand-alone risk than Project B. D Project A has more corporate risk than Project B. Project B has more stand-alone risk than Project A