All techniques—Decision among mutually exclusive investments???
Pound Industries is attempting to select the best of three mutually exclusive projects. The initial investment and?after-tax cash inflows associated with these projects are shown in the following table.
Cash flows |
Project A |
Project B |
Project C |
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Initial investment? (CF) |
?$40,000 |
?$80,000 |
?$90,000 |
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Cash
inflows? (CF),
tequals=1 to 5 |
?$15,000 |
?$26,500 |
?$27,500 |
a. Calculate the payback period for each project.
b. Calculate the net present value? (NPV) of each? project, assuming that the firm has a cost of capital equal to 8?%.
c. Calculate the internal rate of return? (IRR) for each project.
d. Indicate which project you would recommend.
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