1. After examining all the potential projects, you discover that there are many more projects this year...
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2. What does the profitability index (P1) measure? What are the PIs of Franchises S and L?
You have just graduated from the MBA program of a large university, and one of your favorite courses was Todays Entrepreneurs. In fact, you enjoyed it so much you have decided you want to be your own boss. While you were in the masters program, your grandfather died and left you $1 million to do with as you please. You are not an inventor, and you do not have a trade skill that you can market; however, you have decided that you would like to purchase at least one established franchise in the fast-foods area, maybe two (if profitable). The problem is that you have never been one to stay with any project for too long, so you figure that your time frame is 3 years.
After 3 years, you will go on to something else.
You have narrowed your selection down to two choices
(1) Franchise L, Lisas Soups, Salads & Stuff, and
(2) Franchise S, Sams Fabulous Fried Chicken. The net cash flows shown below include the price you would receive for selling the franchise in year 3 and the forecast of how each franchise will do over the 3-year period. Franchise Ls cash flows will start off slowly but will increase rather quickly as people become more health conscious, while Franchise Ss cash flows will start off high but will trail off as other chicken competitors enter the marketplace and as people become more health conscious and avoid fried foods. Franchise L serves breakfast and lunch, while Franchise S serves only dinner, so it is possible for you to invest in both franchises. You see these franchises as perfect complements to one another: You could attract both the lunch and dinner crowds and the heath-conscious and not-so-health-conscious crowds without the franchises directly competing against one another
Here are the net cash flows (in thousands of dollars):
Deprecation, salvage values, net working capital requirements, and tax effects are all included in these cash flows.
You also have made subjective risk assessments of each franchise and concluded that both franchises have risk characteristics that require a return of 10%. You must now determine whether one or both of the franchises should beaccepted.
Salvage value is the estimated book value of an asset after depreciation is complete, based on what a company expects to receive in exchange for the asset at the end of its useful life. As such, an asset’s estimated salvage value is an important...
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