FIN 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Discount Window, Net Present Value, Capital Budgeting
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Q6) Assume yourself as a financial analyst for the Great Land Company. Then, the director of capital budgeting asks you to analyse two proposed capital investments named Project A and Project B. Each project has a cost of 900,000 birr, and the cost of capital (the required rate of return) for each project is 10%. The information on the projects’ expected net cash flows are as follows with the present value of 1 birr at 10%.
Year |
Cash flow of the projects in Birr |
PV of 1birr at 10% |
|
Project A |
Project B |
||
0 |
- 900,000 |
- 900,000 |
1 |
1 |
400,000 |
245,000 |
0.909 |
2 |
350,000 |
245,000 |
0.826 |
3 |
250,000 |
245,000 |
0.751 |
4 |
150,000 |
245,000 |
0.683 |
5 |
100,000 |
245,000 |
0.621 |
Required:
- Calculate each project’s payback period (PBP) and determine which project is preferable as per PBP results. (2 pts)
- Calculate each project’s net present value (NPV). (2 Pts)
- Determine and justify which project or projects should be accepted as per NPV results if they are independent projects. (2Pts).
- Determine and justify which project or projects should be accepted as per NPV if they are mutually exclusive projects. (2Pts).
- Calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) for each project and determine whether the projects are accepted or rejected as per IRR result and also determine which project is preferable based on IRR. (2Pts)
- Discuss the relative strengths and limitations of the capital budgeting decision criteria that you have used above (Payback period, NPV and IRR).( 3Pts)
Calculating Payback. Global Toys Inc., imposes a payback cutoff of three years for its international investment projects. If the company has the following two projects available, should it accept either of them?
Year Cash Flow (A) Cash Flow (B) 0 â$55,000 â$ 95,000 1 19,000 18,000 2 27,000 26,000 3 24,000 28,000 4 9,000 260,000 |
Which Project should be accepted A or B?
a. The payback for Project A is: Payback =
b. The payback for Project B is: Payback =
c. Which project should be accepted:
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Calculating AAR. Youâre trying to determine whether or not to expand your business by building a new manufacturing plant. The plant has an installation cost of $14 million, which will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its four-year life. If the plant has projected net income of $1,253,000, $1,935,000, $1,738,000, and $1,310,000 over these four years, what is the projectâs average accounting return (AAR)?
Calculating AAR, the average net income divided by the average book value. (Show work by calculating net income and average book value):
a. Average net income =
b. Average book value =
c. AAR =
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Calculating IRR. A firm evaluates all of its projects by applying the IRR rule. If the required return is 11 percent, should the firm accept the following project?
Year Cash Flow 0 â$153,000 1 78,000 2 67,000 3 49,000 |
Calculating IRR the interest rate that makes the NPV of the project equal to zero. (Show work by calculating IRR):
a. IRR =
b. Should the project be accepted and why?
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Calculating NPV. For the cash flows in the previous problem, suppose the firm uses the NPV decision rule. At a required return of 9 percent, should the firm accept this project? What if the required return was 21 percent?
Calculating NPV. Hint the NPV of a project is the PV of the outflows minus by the PV of the inflows. (Show work by calculating NPV):
a. @ 9% required return.
NPV@ 9% required return =
b. Should the project be accepted:
c. @ 21% required return.
NPV@ 21% required return =
d. Should the project be accepted: