maimoumou 发表于 2010-4-22 23:26
   下面的那段英文是公司理财一道题的答案，请问应该怎样比较专业的翻译它。题目是这样的：在哪种情况下公司应该为其不同分部使用不同的资本成本？如果公司总的加权资本成本被用于其不同的分部，那么风险高的部门还是风险低的部门可能得到更多的投资？为什么？如果你要估算不同分部的各自合适的资本成本，你可能需要解决哪些问题？哪两种方法可以被用来估算大概的资本成本？

If the different operating divisions were in much different risk classes, then separate cost of capital figures should be used for the different divisions; the use of a single, overall cost of capital would be inappropriate. If the single hurdle rate were used, riskier divisions would tend to receive funds for investment projects, since their return would exceed the hurdle rate despite the fact that they may actually plot below the SML and, hence, be unprofitable projects on a risk-adjusted basis. The typical problem encountered in estimating the cost of capital for a division is that it rarely has its own securities traded on the market, so it is difficult to observe the market’s valuation of the risk of the division. Two typical ways around this are to use a pure play proxy for the division, or to use subjective adjustments of the overall firm hurdle rate based on the perceived risk of the division.