Calculate the Pay-off Period for an IS project that has a $300,000 development cost in year 1 and annual $50,000 maintenance costs from year 2 onwards. The benefits are expected to be $100,000 in Year 2 and growing $25,000 a year as adoption of the system increases. The discount rate is 0%.
Answer:-
Payback (pay-off) period: 4.6 years
Year | Cash flow | Net Cash flow |
1 | -300000 | -300000 |
2 | =100000-50000=50000 | -300000+50000=250000 |
3 | =100000+25000-50000=75000 | -250000+75000=-175000 |
4 | =100000+25000+25000-50000=100000 | -175000-100000=75000 |
5 | =100000+25000+25000+25000-50000=125,000 | -75000+125,000= |
Positive net cash flow will start from year 5
Hence, Pay-off period is between 4 and 5 years.
Pay off period = Complete years + (Remaining cost to be
recovered/Cash flow)
= 4 + (75000/125000) = 4+0.6 = 4.6 years
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