Capital Investment Appraisal A Comparative Study Between Public And Private Companies

Company budgeting involves allocation of source financial resources to long term investment. Thus, because of the involved capital there is need for adequate manager. Through the aid of theories and provided with capital budgeting techniques that aid capital budgeting appraisal. This study investigate, the subject of capital budgeting in relation to public and private companies. The companies use such a management tool companies uses in which the application of such in the private and public sector differ.
Hence the research work focuses on organization selected from the public and private sector and the selection was based on a random selection of companies that broadly represented both companies. Findings of the study revealed that capital budgeting as investment appraisal techniques was employed more by public companies. Also business and finance theories such as return, profit and loss analysis and accounting rate of return are employed in the business studied.
This work has recommended possible way” of improving capital budgeting in the private sector such as improvement and increasing in methods adopted and improvement in management approach to capital budgeting.