Is there a way to use basic and generally accepted accounting principles to amortize capital costs and determine what the recovery rate is?
I know that you're not going to recover 100% or anywhere near it on capital costs, but just in terms of having a financial model to determine the viability of a given project and to have an accepted threshold of recovery that determines whether or not a project is worthwhile, is there any sort of formula that incorporates operating capital and then devises a recovery rate based on the total investment?