Capital Investment Risks Capital investments: Cloud computing for public universities Cloud computing has many advantages over traditional, hardware-bound computing. "In the current financial crisis and being challenged by growing needs, universities are facing problems in providing necessary information technology (IT) support for educational, research and development activities" (Mircea & Andreescu 2011:1). Public universities have been particularly hard-hit financially because of their reliance upon state funding. States are struggling to provide the bare

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If the estimates from the investment project are found to be viable, then the development of the capital budget for the particular project commences. The project investment will be included with the master budget of the entity along with the other investments. The process ends on reevaluation. Because of the long-term nature of capital investment projects, the estimates are coupled with certain risks. In view of this, an approved

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