Book 2
Book 2
Book 2
(GEI) has $40 million that it can invest in any or all of the four capital investment
projects, which have cash flows as shown in Table A below.
Type of
Project Type of Cash Flow Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
A Investment (10,000)
Revenue 21,000
Operationg Expenses 11,000
B Investment (10,000)
Revenue 15,000 17,000
Operationg Expenses 5,833 7,833
C Investment (10,000)
Revenue 10,000 11,000 30,000
Operationg Expenses 5,555 4,889 15,555
D Investment (10,000)
Revenue 30,000 10,000 5,000
Operationg Expenses 15,555 5,555 2,222
Each of the projets is considered to be of equivalent risk. The investment will be depreciated to zero on a straight-lin
GEI's marginal corporate tax rate on taxable income is 40%. None of the projects will have any salvage value at the
For purposes of analysis, it should be assumend that all cash flows occur at the end of the yeat in question.
A Rank GEI's four projects according to the following four commonly used capital budget criteria:
1) Payback period
2) Accounting return on investment. For purposes of this exercies, the accounting return onn inv
Average annual after-tax profits
(required investment)/2
4) Net Presenst value, assuming alternately a 10% discount rate and a 35% discount rate
B Why do the ranking differ? What does each technique measure and what assumptions does it ma
C If the projects are independent of each other, which should be accepted? If they are mutally exclu
capital investment
ed? If they are mutally exclusive (i.e one and only one can be accepted), which one is the best?