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Exercise 2.4 (20 Points): A 1 2 3 4 5 Project Omega 6 Required Rate of Return 7 Investment 8 Cash Inflows 9 NPV = 10 11 Project Alpha 12 Required Rate of Return B C D E F G H I J Exercise 4a Net Present Value Example Comparing Two Projects Year 0 18% -$225‚000 -$190‚000 $150‚000 $190‚000 $215‚000 $175‚000 $197‚000 $70‚000 $119‚689 Formula Project Omega: =C7+NPV(B6‚D8:J8) Year 0 18% Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year
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FIN370 WK3 Solutions Guide: 1. We focus on free cash flows rather than accounting profits because these are the flows that the firm receives and can reinvest. Only by examining cash flows are we able to correctly analyze the timing of the benefit or cost. Also‚ we are only interested in these cash flows on an after tax basis as only those flows are available to the shareholder. In addition‚ it is only the incremental cash flows that interest us‚ because‚ looking at the project from the point
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ways to overcome those risk. To help with this process‚ financial managers can use capital budgeting techniques which have groups of calculations and sets of decision rules. The techniques that are used are called payback period‚ net present value (NPV)‚ internal rate of return (IRR)‚ and profitability index (PI) (Lasher‚ 2011‚ p. 456-458). The payback period is generally the easiest budgeting technique out of the group and provides an financial manger an estimation on how long the original cost
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Bunyan Lumber LLC Clear-cutting is a controversial method of forest management. To obtain the necessary permits‚ Bunyan Lumber has agreed to contribute to a conservation fund every time it harvests the lumber. If the company harvested the forest today‚ the required contribution would be $300‚000. The company has agreed that the required contribution will grow by 3.2 percent per year. When should the company harvest the forest? The options that are available to harvest are years 40‚ 45‚ 50
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costs‚ NPV‚ IRR‚ and the Profitability Index SAI presented two capital investment proposals to their Financial Analyst to make a final decision. The first proposal involved expanding the existing Digital Imaging market share (Digi-image) and the second was to enter the Wireless Communication market (W-Comm). Many capital project investment decisions are made by comparing the economic value of the project ’s benefit to the economic value of its cost. The difference between the two is the NPV. The
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Capital Budgeting Case Learning Team A QRB/501 Quantitative Reasoning for Business July 29‚ 2014 Dr. Larry Olanrewaju Capital Budgeting Case Our Company has the opportunity to obtain another corporation. We have to choose between two companies‚ Company A or Company B. We only have $250‚000 to spend to purchase the companies. Because of this financial constraint‚ acquiring both corporations is not an option. Therefore‚ we must determine what company would be better to acquire. Company A Company
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( Design of a Small–Scale Biodiesel Production System Jeffrey Anderson‚ Jessica Caceres‚ Ali Khazaei‚ Jedidiah Shirey Abstract – The city of Fredericksburg is located in central Virginia and is home to 592 farms covering 16% of the total land area. Farms in this region have experienced declining profits from an average of $555 per farm in 1997 to -$14‚931 per farm in 2007. One of the ways to reduce operating costs and return to profitability is to significantly reduce diesel costs. An alternative
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five positive NPV projects to choose from. However‚ there is not enough manufacturing space in your plant to select all of the projects. Use profitability index to choose among the projects‚ given that you only have 100‚000 square feet of unused space. Project NPV Square feet needed Project 1 100‚000 40‚000 Project 2 88‚000 30‚000 Project 3 80‚000 38‚000 Project 4 50‚000 24‚000 Project 5 12‚000 1‚000 Total 330‚000 133‚000 Solution Compute the PI for each project Project NPV Square feet needed
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in depth. The project proposals (CPRs) are owned and presented by the real estate managers. There is a lot of pre-work that goes into the project before it’s presented. Typically 12-24 months of work is done to collect various data such as NPV‚ IRR‚ demographics‚ brand awareness‚ and sensitivity analysis. The sales projections are provided by the Research and Planning group and all project metrics are summarized into a standardized
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