The list of things that you should consider are:
1. What is the project about and is it similar to the business that the company is already doing. What is the discount rate that is to be used?
2. The discount rate would the current cost of capital that you gathered from talking to various people in the organisation
3. Next, you would have to decide the amount of capital that this required to finance the project. What are the estimates that you gathered from the finance department and what is the average of all the estimates that you gathered
4. How will this capital need to finance the new project be raised? Will it be through equity, will it be through debt? How will taking additional debt affect the overall risk profile of the business
5. With the arrived at cost of capital, what is the NPV (Net Present Value) and IRR (Internal rate of return of the project)
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