The vast
majority, 83.2% chose WACC, while 7.4% chose the cost of debt, 1.5% chose the cost of
retained earnings, and 1.0% chose the cost of new equity. A minority (5.4%) chose cost
of equity for a project financed with equity and cost of debt for a project financed with
debt and 1.5% indicated they had another measure for calculating the base discount rate.