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Payback, NPV, and MIRR Your division is considering two investment projects, eac

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Payback, NPV, and MIRR

Your division is considering two investment projects, each of which requires an up-front expenditure of $26 million. You estimate that the cost of capital is 10% and that the investments will produce the following after-tax cash flows (in millions of dollars):

A.) What is the regular payback period for each of the projects? Round your answers to two decimal places.


Project A ______years

Project B ______years

B.) What is the discounted payback period for each of the projects? Round your answers to two decimal places.

Project A ______years

Project B ______years

C.) If the two projects are independent and the cost of capital is 10%, which project or projects should the firm undertake?

Answer: Both Porjects (verified correct)

D.) If the two projects are mutually exclusive and the cost of capital is 5%, which project should the firm undertake?

Answer: Project A (verified correct)

E.) If the two projects are mutually exclusive and the cost of capital is 15%, which project should the firm undertake?

Answer: Project B (verified correct)

F.) What is the crossover rate? Round your answer to two decimal places.

_______%

G.) If the cost of capital is 10%, what is the modified IRR (MIRR) of each project? Round your answers to two decimal places.

Project A _______%

Project B _______%

Year Project A Project B 1 5 20 2 10 10 3 15 8 4 20 6

Explanation / Answer

Pay back period A

Payback period is the time it takes for a project to return the initial capital, Payback period is different than discounted payback in which cash flows are discounted first with required rate of return/discount rate, in payback period method cash flows are not discounted.

Year

Cash Inflow

Cumulative cash flow

1

5000000

5000000

2

10000000

15000000

3

15000000

30000000

4

20000000

50000000

Payback period will fall between year 2 and 3

Payback period will be,               

= 2+ (26000000 - 15000000)/15000000

= 2+ (11000000)/ 15000000

= 2+ 0.73

= 2.73 years

Payback period B

Year

Cash Inflow

Cumulative cash flow

1

20000000

20000000

2

10000000

30000000

3

8000000

38000000

4

6000000

44000000

Payback period will fall between year 1 and 2                  

Payback period will be,                               

= 1+ (26000000 - 20000000)/10000000                     

= 1+ (6000000)/ 10000000                             

= 1+ 0.6                

= 1.6 years

Discounted Payback A

While calculating payback Cash flow from asset/project first discounted using required rate of return then payback period is calculated. Discounted payback is the time it takes for a project to return the initial cost.

If the required rate of return is 0.1

Payback period will be,               

Year

Cash Inflow

Present value factor

Present value of cash flow

Cumulative cash flow

1

5000000

0.90909

4545454.545

4545454.545

2

10000000

0.82645

8264462.81

12809917.36

3

15000000

0.75131

11269722.01

24079639.37

4

20000000

0.68301

13660269.11

37739908.48

Payback period will fall between year 3 and 4  

Payback period will be calculated following way,

= 3+ (26000000 - 24079639.3688956)/ 13660269.1073014

= 3+ (1920360.63110444)/ 13660269.1073014

= 3+ 0.140580000000001                                                               

= 3.14 years

Discounted payback B

Year

Cash Inflow

Present value factor @ 10%

Present value of cash flow

Cumulative cash flow

1

20000000

0.90909

18181818.18

18181818.18

2

10000000

0.82645

8264462.81

26446280.99

3

8000000

0.75131

6010518.407

32456799.4

4

6000000

0.68301

4098080.732

36554880.13

Payback period will fall between year 1 and 2  

Payback period will be calculated following way,           

= 1+ (26000000 - 18181818.1818182)/ 8264462.80991735

= 1+ (7818181.81818182)/ 8264462.80991735

= 1+ 0.946                           

= 1.95 years.

The project with shortest payback and discounted payback should be selected.

Year

Cash Inflow

Cumulative cash flow

1

5000000

5000000

2

10000000

15000000

3

15000000

30000000

4

20000000

50000000

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