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Exercise 11-6 Payback Period and Simple Rate of Return [LO11-1, LO11-4] Nick’s N

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Exercise 11-6 Payback Period and Simple Rate of Return [LO11-1, LO11-4]

Nick’s Novelties, Inc., is considering the purchase of new electronic games to place in its amusement houses. The games would cost a total of $720,000, have an eight-year useful life, and have a total salvage value of $72,000. The company estimates that annual revenues and expenses associated with the games would be as follows:

  

40,000

241,000

9,000

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Section BreakExercise 11-6 Payback Period and Simple Rate of Return [LO11-1, LO11-4]

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Exercise 11-6 Part 1

1a.

Compute the pay back period associated with the new electronic games.

      

1b.

Assume that Nick’s Novelties, Inc., will not purchase new games unless they provide a payback period of 9 years or less. Would the company purchase the new games?

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WorksheetDifficulty: 1 EasyLearning Objective: 11-04 Compute the simple rate of return for an investment.

Exercise 11-6 Part 1Learning Objective: 11-01 Determine the payback period for an investment.

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Exercise 11-6 Part 2

2a.

Compute the simple rate of return promised by the games. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place. i.e. 0.123 should be considered as 12.3%.)

       

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Nick’s Novelties, Inc., is considering the purchase of new electronic games to place in its amusement houses. The games would cost a total of $720,000, have an eight-year useful life, and have a total salvage value of $72,000. The company estimates that annual revenues and expenses associated with the games would be as follows:

Explanation / Answer

1(a) Payback period = Net initial investment/ Annual net cash flows.

Annual net cash flows = Net operating income (cash) + Salvage value

Since Depreciation is a non cash expense, so we have to add back it to the net operating income to calculate Net cash flows from operating income

Annual net cash flows= $9000+$40000+$72000 = $ 121000

Payback period = 720000/121000 = 5.95 years

1b Yes. Since the payback period is 5.95 or 6 years (after rounding off), which is less than 9 years required, so company should purchase the new games.

2a. Simple rate of return = Accounting Profit / Initial investment

= 9000/720000= 1.2%