Net Present Value Versus Internal Rate of Return

For discount factors use Exhibit 12B-1 and Exhibit 12B-2.

Skiba Company is thinking about two different modifications to its current manufacturing process. The after-tax cash flows associated with the two investments follow:

Year		Project I		Project II
0		$(100,000)		$(100,000)
1				63,857
2		134,560		63,857

Skiba's cost of capital is 12%.

Required:

1. Compute the NPV and the IRR for each investment. Round present value calculations and your final NPV answers to the nearest dollar. Round IRR answers to the nearest whole percent.

	NPV	IRR
Project I	fill in the blank	fill in the blank
Project II	fill in the blank	fill in the blank

2. Conceptual Connection: Explain why the project with the larger NPV is the correct choice for Skiba.

NPV is an absolute profitability or relative profitability measure and reveals how much the value of the firm will change for each project. IRR gives a measure of . Thus, since NPV reveals the total wealth change attributable to each project, it is preferred to the IRR measure.