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More on the Weighted Average Cost of Capital: A Comment and Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Charles M. Linke  and
Moon K. Kim
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The mathematical difficulties encountered when attempting to express the internal rate of return (IRR) of a combination of two or more investments as a weighted algebraic sum of the individual investments' IRRs has been recognized in the financial literature for some time. However, in a recent issue of this journal, Professors Reilly and Wecker (hereafter R-W) [3] apply the well-known mathematical impossibility of expressing the root(s) of a polynomial as an algebraic combination of the roots of related polynomials to question the validity of the weighted cost of capital (kw) concept.

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Communications
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , December 1974 , pp. 1069 - 1080
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1974

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