Exam 13: Weighing Net Present Value and Other Capital Budgeting Criteria

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Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown as follows, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 10 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistics for the project are three and a half and four and a half years, respectively. Use the discounted payback decision to evaluate this project; should it be accepted or rejected? Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cash Flow -\ 5,000 \ 1,200 \ 1,400 \ 1,600 \ 1,600 \ 1,100 \ 2,000

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Under what conditions can a rate-based statistic yield a different accept/reject decision than NPV?

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Compute the NPV statistic for Project Y given the following cash flows if the appropriate cost of capital is 10 percent. Time 0 1 2 3 4 Cash Flow \ 8,000 \ 3,350 \ 4,180 \ 1,520 \ 2,000

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Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown as follows, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 8 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistics for the project are three and a half and four and a half years, respectively. Use the PI decision to evaluate this project; should it be accepted or rejected? Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cash Flow -\ 5,000 \ 1,200 \ 1,400 \ 1,600 \ 1,600 \ 1,100 \ 2,000

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Suppose your firm is considering two mutually exclusive, required projects with the cash flows shown as follows. The required rate of return on projects of both of their risk class is 10 percent, and the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the projects are two and a half and three and a half years, respectively. Time 0 1 2 3 Project A Cash Flow -1,000 300 400 700 Project B Cash Flow -500 200 400 300

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Which of the following is a technique for evaluating capital projects that tells how long it will take a firm to earn back the money invested in a project plus interest at market rates?

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Compute the payback statistic for Project Y and recommend whether the firm should accept or reject the project with the cash flows shown as follows if the appropriate cost of capital is 11 percent and the maximum allowable payback is one year. Time: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cash flow: -100 75 100 300 75 200

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The least-used capital budgeting technique in industry is:

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Neither payback period nor discounted payback period techniques for evaluating capital projects account for:

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Which of the following statements is correct?

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Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown as follows, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 12 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the project are two and two and a half years, respectively. Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cash Flow -125,000 65,000 78,000 105,000 105,000 25,000

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Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown as follows, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 8 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the project are three and three and a half years, respectively. Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cash Flow -100,000 30,000 45,000 55,000 30,000 10,000

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Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown as follows, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 12 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the project are two and two and a half years, respectively. Time 0 1 2 3 4 Cash Flow -125,000 65,000 78,000 105,000 105,000 25,000

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Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown as follows, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 8 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistics for the project are three and a half and four and a half years, respectively. Use the MIRR decision to evaluate this project; should it be accepted or rejected? Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cash Flow -\ 5,000 \ 1,200 \ 1,400 \ 1,600 \ 1,600 \ 1,100 \ 2,000

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Compute the MIRR for Project Y and accept or reject the project with the cash flows shown as follows if the appropriate cost of capital is 12 percent. Time: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cash flow: -5,000 1,000 1,000 0 2,000 2,000

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Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown as follows, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 10 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistics for the project are three and a half and four and a half years, respectively. Use the IRR decision to evaluate this project; should it be accepted or rejected? Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cash Flow -\ 85,000 \ 12,000 \ 11,000 \ 13,000 \ 21,000 \ 31,000 \ 32,000

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Compute the NPV for Project X and accept or reject the project with the cash flows shown as follows if the appropriate cost of capital is 10 percent. Time: Time: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cash flow: -75 -75 0 100 75 50

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Which of these are sets of cash flows where all the initial cash flows are negative and all the subsequent ones are either zero or positive?

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Suppose you have a project whose discounted payback is equal to its termination date. What can you say for sure about its PI?

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All of the following capital budgeting tools are suitable for non-normal cash flows EXCEPT:

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