The Southern Guru Copper Company operates a large mine in a South American country. A legislator in
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Year Cash Flow
0..........................$0.5 million investment
1..................................3.5 million profit
2...................................0.9 million profit
3...................................3.9 million profit
4...................................8.6 million profit
5...................................4.3 million profit
6...................................3.1 million profit
7...................................6.1 million profit
The legislator divided the $30.4 million total profit by the $0.5 million investment. This produced, he said, a 6080% rate of return on the investment. Southern Guru claims the actual rate of return is much lower. They ask you to compute their rate of return.
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ISBN: 9780195168075
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Authors: Donald Newnan, Ted Eschanbach, Jerome Lavelle
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