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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

It has been proposed in this section that Payback period be renamed and moved to Pay-back period.

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

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)[reply]

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. 70.49.125.226 (talk) 10:25, 17 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]