What is the term for the payback period method that uses the project's cost of capital to discount expected cash flows?

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13 Jan 2019
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The discounted payback period calculates the time required to recover the initial investment by discounting future cash flows using the project's cost of capital. This differentiates it from the simple payback period, which does not account for the time value of money.

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