{"id":1927,"date":"2011-11-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onefte.com\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:40:16","slug":"a-lesson-on-interpreting-net-present-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onefte.com\/?p=1927","title":{"rendered":"a lesson on interpreting net present value"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-11-11-a-lesson-on-interpreting-net-present-value.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-11-11-a-lesson-on-interpreting-net-present-value.png\" alt=\"a lesson on interpreting net present value\" class=\"wp-image-1264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-11-11-a-lesson-on-interpreting-net-present-value.png 487w, https:\/\/onefte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2011-11-11-a-lesson-on-interpreting-net-present-value-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">original publish date: 11th November, 2011<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">decades on \u2026<\/h2><p class=\"onefte-placeholder wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Commentary coming soon.<\/em><\/p><details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>transcript<\/summary><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FTE #1: Onett.Con  would approve any business case with an n.P.V. Above zero because it has met the hurdle rate set by the company, wrong. The closer an n.P.V is to zero, the more you test estimates, assumptions and forecasts and the more convinced you are that the whole business case was reverse-engineered.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caption: Textbooks only tell half the story.<\/p><\/details>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>original publish date: 11th November, 2011 decades on \u2026 Commentary coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>a lesson on interpreting net present value - One FTE - impressions of a corporate life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/onefte.com\/?p=1927\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"a lesson on interpreting net present value - 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