For a comparison of the six capital budgeting methods, two capital investments projects are for analysis. The
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Both projects have Payback Periods well within the five year time period.
Project A has the shortest Payback Period of three years and Project B is only slightly longer. When the cash flows are discounted (10 percent) to compute a Discounted Payback Period, the time period needed to repay the investment is longer.
Project B now has a repayment period over four years in length and comes close to consuming the entire cash flows from the five year time period.
If only one investment project will be chosen and funds are unlimited which project will be chosen after you have carried out the following assessments on either project
Using discounted cash flow analysis, analyse the economic merit of this investment and advise the potential investor about the returns on either project
Explain how you would conduct the financial analysis to make a case to present to a financier (but do not do the financial analysis).
In reaching your explanation you must calculate using the formulas provided
a) Payback period for both projects
b) NPV @ 10% for each year
c) Profitability Index @ 10%
d) Internal rate of return
e) Which capital budgeting method should you use? List some advantages and disadvantages of each.
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