Question: PopEar Chicken is considering two potential projects, The Management Team under Jane has decided to present the cash flows from two recent proposals: the Lowasugar

  1. PopEar Chicken is considering two potential projects, The Management Team under Jane has decided to present the cash flows from two recent proposals: the Lowasugar project and the Boostametabol project. All figures are in thousands of dollars:

Time of

Cash Flow

LowasugarBoostametabol
Investment-$17,500-$15,500
Year 12,0007,000
Year 23,7005,500
Year 36,2503,075
Year 47,0003,200
Year 54,0002,000


  1. State and explain the decision rule behind the NPV method.
  2. Compute the net present value (NPV) for each project by using a discount rate of 8.79% for projects of average risk.
  3. Which of the two projects is more profitable?

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