Discover how the risk-adjusted discount rate reflects investment risk and return, helping you to evaluate the valuation of projects with potential risk.

Understand the differences between the prime rate and discount rate, how each affects borrowing costs, consumer loans, and the role of the Federal Reserve.

IN LITIGATION INVOLVING FUTURE ECONOMIC damages, experts’ calculations must discount the amounts to present value. The courts have offered little guidance on appropriate discount rates. BUSINESS ...

The discount factor of a company is the rate of return that a capital expenditure project must meet to be accepted. It is used to calculate the net present value of future cash flows from a project ...

Requiring that the value of discounted cash earnings is near the Net Asset Value explains why REITs are generally priced near NAV. It makes sense for the market to assign less value to future growth ...

The next step in my research on threats to retiree income involves earnings multiples and discount rates. The application space here is REITs, but the general points made apply much more broadly. It ...

This paper proposes reforms to the discount rates used by the Bank and the Fund to (a) calculate the present value (PV) of the external debt of low-income countries (LICs) in debt sustainability ...

HONG KONG, December 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The recent easing of discount rate regulations by South Korea’s financial authorities will alleviate pressure on the solvency position of the country’s ...