The hurdle rate is the minimum acceptable return on an investment i.e., the project appropriate discount rate.

The answer depends on two key variables the discount rate and future earnings growth.

Because both the discount rate and growth rate are assumptions, inaccuracies in one or both inputs can provide an improper value.

The liabilities were valued on the basis of a discount rate of 5.5 per cent.

In each case, the differences lie in the choice of the income stream and discount rate.

In addition, it is important to note that at a given discount rate, any exit multiple implies a terminal growth rate and conversely any terminal growth rate implies an exit multiple.

The discount rate used is generally the appropriate weighted average cost of capital (WACC), that reflects the risk of the cashflows.

(A common error in choosing a discount rate for a project is to apply a WACC that applies to the entire firm.

Ecological losses are calculated as the difference between the actual catches and the expected catches, using a three per cent annual discount rate.

As of 2011 the official graduation rate is 62 .

7. Decides that the least developed countries should be placed in a separate level and receive the highest rate of discount available under the scale

In the United States, this interest rate is the federal funds rate in the United Kingdom, it is the official bank rate.

The consumption discount rate should account for the possibility that, as consumption grows, the marginal unit of consumption may be considered to have less social value.

Let s not discount that statement.

Indeed, the official unemployment rate understates the weakness of the labor market.

The official exchange rate pegs Burma s currency, the kyat , at a rate of six to one against the US dollar.

The halving of the mortality rate has brought it below the official emergency threshold.

Sami invited Layla back for an even bigger discount.

In the United States, the Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate ten times since August 2007, from 5.25 to a zone between zero and 0.25 , and has reduced the discount rate 12 times (by a total of 550 basis points since June 2006), to 0.75 .

It's a difficult theory to discount, I think you'll agree.

There's a scratch here. Could you give me a discount?

However the assumptions used in the appraisal (especially the equity discount rate and the projection of the cash flows to be achieved) are likely to be at least as important as the precise model used.

By contrast, the link between official intervention and exchange rate movements is much more direct and potent.

Its proponents argue that it is the main policy instrument left, and that it will work by increasing credit or lowering the discount rate, which will raise asset prices and hence consumption via balance sheet effects.

By recording earnings at the official exchange rate, they are worth nearly 200 times below what they should be.

The picture is especially grim for the UK, with the official interest rate at 0.5 and inflation at 3.3 .

Given this dual exchange rate system, hiding Burma s gas earnings becomes easy. By recording earnings at the official exchange rate, they are worth nearly 200 times below what they should be.

English is the official language, and the literacy rate, 98 percent, is one of the highest in the Western Hemisphere.

There's really no dispute about progress, if we discount the cost of that.

Let s assume that costs to prevent additional accumulation of CO2 (and equivalents) come to 1 of GNP every year forever, and, in accordance with a fair amount of empirical evidence, that the component of the discount rate attributable to the declining marginal utility of consumption is equal to twice the rate of growth of consumption.

While the one time increase will appear in official statistics as a temporary rise in the growth rate, there is nothing to make that higher growth rate continue in the following quarters.

Their bonds sell at a discount relative to those of better managed individual states.

The fortuneteller says, I give smokers a discount because there s not as much to tell.

But it is also a mistake to discount the importance of leaders with humanitarian values.

Societies in which the official unemployment rate stands at 10 or more for generations are societies in which government economic management has failed.

BEIJING Measured by the percentage of people living in its cities, China s urbanization rate currently stands at about 48 , according to official statistics.

However, as of 2012, an estimated 11.7 of the population lived below the poverty line and the official open unemployment rate was 6.1 .

At the balance sheet date, all asset and liability balances are revalued using the United Nations official exchange rate as at 31 December.

Instead, we purchased Al Qaeda, which we found wrapped in yellow tape in the discount bin.

At its most recent policy meeting, the ECB left its policy rate unchanged, citing inflation half a percentage point above the official 2 target.

Even official data now put the inflation rate at more than 100,000 , and the plight of ordinary Zimbabweans grows more desperate by the day.

China s official foreign reserves are increasing at a rate of about 1 billion per business day, almost all of which is used to buy US Treasury bonds and other international assets that carry a minimal rate of return.

Bulgaria from Level I to Level H Level H means 70 per cent discount for voluntary movement.

Latvia from Level I to Level H Level H means 70 per cent discount for voluntary movement.

Lithuania from Level I to Level H Level H means 70 per cent discount for voluntary movement.