Paper Title
Capital Budgeting Practices: Evidence From Sri Lankan Listed Companies
Abstract
Capital budgeting one of the most important functions of corporate finance. The present study examined the
capital budgeting practices of Sri Lankan companies. The survey sample included 44 Sri Lankan listed companies covering
five major sectors. We found that discounted as well as non-discounted methods are equally used by the Sri Lankan
companies for the capital budgeting decisions. According to the data gathered by the survey, majority of the respondents
(80%) used NPV, IRR and Payback as their important or very important capital budgeting method. It is worth to notice that
fair number of respondents use Real Option techniques for the capital budgeting decisions.
Key Words- Capital Budgeting, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Payback