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

Still, a decline of just half a percentage point from current interest rates on corporates, Treasuries and other bonds could produce some acceptable returns this year.

Yesterday, Gap said the chain "was not demonstrating enough potential to deliver an acceptable long-term return on investment."

This means that a Japanese company can shave profit margins to hold the line on prices, and still make an acceptable return.

Here is the probability of the return and which occurs at is the minimal acceptable return.

However, sometimes companies may find that some or all of their retained earnings cannot be reinvested to produce acceptable returns.

The poor second half performance, however, masks the changes that have been made at Lincat, which is now placed to deliver more acceptable returns.

The juniors won by 19 imps, and each went home richer by $2,500, an acceptable return for a day of effort at the bridge table.

Among 24 regional banks, 11 managed an acceptable return on assets of more than 1% in 1989, and on equity of at least 15%.

Dover Motorsports Inc. said on their website that the track could no longer be operated with "an acceptable return."