Decision-making and investment, most of them focus on whether the project should
be started from now on or not, and if it start, how much the benefits will be. In so far
as, there are few articles discuss the problem about whether delay the investment
could bring more benefit. And there are few even think about a systemic method to
decide the optimal time of investment.
In this paper, on the basis of the modern enterprise performance evaluation
theory, the author gives a decision-making method to solve the optimal timing
investment problem, and compares the different investment time in accordance with
actual investment data. The paper establishes a project investment decision-making
model, and by using Enterprises Comparative Method, presents a method to obtain
the virtual index data of enterprise performance evaluation. After this, we make a
mathematical forecast about the data of next few years to obtain some virtual index
data. Then based on the different virtual index data which rooting in different
investment timing point, we build a decision-making matrix, by using time-series
data derived from virtual index of enterprise performance evaluation. At last, by
using Multi-attribute decision-making methods, we determine the optimal time of the
project.
The key technology of this paper is that the gain of virtual index data of
enterprise performance evaluation、the forecast of the virtual index data and Multi-
attribute decision-making methods etc. For a project, though the current investment
could get benefits immediately, these benefits depend on the occupation of
abundance investment capital. Delaying the investment may be more advantageous
for a enterprise, for that although no immediately return, the return of Delaying the
investment may be larger than the former, and reduce the occupation of investment
capital. Recent studies have shown that the time of investment may plays an
important role in project’ economical benefits. The methods that without considering
of investment time may lead some action deviation to the decision-makers, thus
influence the enterprise’ economical benefits.
Through the study of index data of enterprise performance evaluation, we present
a method to judge the optimal timing of investment, thereby in a certain extent avoid
the occupation of investment capital, and save the cost, play a guiding role in
decision-making.
This paper is divided into four parts. In the first part, we introduce and comment
on the relevant issues of the domestic and international research, and illustrate the
purport of the paper; in the second part, we introduce some theories about data
forecast, decision-making methods and enterprise performance evaluation, and make
a stability theoretical foundation for the methods we proposed; in the third part, we
establish a decision-making model which based on virtual index data of enterprise
performance evaluation. In this part, we also propose the methods to get and dispose
data, and apply Multi-attribute decision-making methods to the model; in the forth
part, we use compute to finish the model; in the fifth part, we make a model for a
certain enterprise, and by using Multi-attribute decision-making methods to judge the
projects; in the last part, we make a conclusion of the paper.