Talk:Payback period/Archives/2011

advantages

• easy to calculate
• easy to understand

disadvantages

• ignores what is happening after the payback period
• ignores the value of money
• ignores profitability as it takes into consideration cash inflows
• it does not state the actual value of the project

The title

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No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:29, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Payback period → Pay-back period – Adville (talk) 19:35, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

I wonder if the headline is correct. according to [The Oxford Dictionary of Economics] it should be "pay-back period" (while it in my Swedish book about economics is written "pay back metod" (but to get the correct term I prefere Oxford).

It could be a redirect from this page to the oxford-spelling, but I do not want to interfere in the enwp in these matters as I do not know your rules for that. Adville (talk) 12:29, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose Oxford doesn't rule Britain, and Britain doesn't rule the world. Many Oxfordian spellings are not commonly used in Britain, while many British spellings are not used outside of Britain, and Commonwealth English isn't the only form of English in the world. "payback period"[1] is used in the world. Google even says that "pay-back period" and "pay back period" are mispellings of "payback period" (and also "pay back period"+"pay-back period" have 1/6 the number of gbc hits that "payback period" has). 70.49.125.226 (talk) 10:27, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

But does google rule the english language? I can show on a very common misstake among Swedish people that almost makes more hits for the wrong thing than the correct thing... anyway I wouldn´t let that pass... ("än mej" or "än jag"). What does the US universities say (compared with Oxford). Adville (talk) 23:36, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

It's a Google Books search, not a regular google search. Those are publications, not websites. 70.24.244.20 (talk) 06:29, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

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