Exam 12: Capital Budgeting: Decision Criteria

Project A has an internal rate of return of 18 percent, while Project B has an internal rate of return of 16 percent. However, if the company's cost of capital (WACC) is 12 percent, Project B has a higher net present value. Which of the following statements is most correct?

Two mutually exclusive projects each have a cost of $10,000. The total, undiscounted cash flows from Project L are $15,000, while the undiscounted cash flows from Project S total $13,000. Their NPV profiles cross at a discount rate of 10 percent. Which of the following statements best describes this situation?

A major disadvantage of the payback period method is that it

Which of the following is most correct?

Small businesses probably make less use of the DCF capital budgeting techniques than large businesses. This may reflect a lack of knowledge on the part of small firms' managers, but it may also reflect a rational conclusion that the costs of using DCF analysis outweigh the benefits of these methods for those firms.

A small manufacturer is considering two alternative machines. Machine A costs $1 million, has an expected life of 5 years, and generates after-tax cash flows of $350,000 per year. At the end of 5 years, the salvage value of the original machine is zero, but the company will be able to purchase another Machine A at a cost of $1.2 million. The second Machine A will generate after-tax cash flows of $375,000 a year for another 5 years at which time its salvage value will again be zero. Alternatively, the company can buy Machine B at a cost of $1.5 million today. Machine B will produce after-tax cash flows of $400,000 a year for ten years, and after ten years it will have an after-tax salvage value of $100,000. Assume that the cost of capital is 12 percent. If the company chooses the machine which adds the most value to the firm, by how much will the company's value increase?

Capitol City Transfer Company is considering building a new terminal in Salt Lake City. If the company goes ahead with the project, it must spend $1 million immediately (at t = 0) and another $1 million at the end of Year 1 (t = 1). It will then receive net cash flows of $0.5 million at the end of Years 2 - 5, and it expects to sell the property and net $1 million at the end of Year 6. All cash inflows and outflows are after taxes. The company's cost of capital is 12 percent, and it uses the modified IRR criterion for capital budgeting decisions. What is the project's modified IRR (MIRR)?

In capital budgeting analyses, it is possible that NPV and IRR will both involve an assumption of reinvestment of the project's cash flows at the same rate.

Other things held constant, an increase in the cost of capital discount rate will result in a decrease in a project's IRR.

Your company is planning to open a new gold mine which will cost $3 million to build, with the expenditure occurring at the end of the year three years from today. The mine will bring year-end after-tax cash inflows of $2 million at the end of the two succeeding years, and then it will cost $0.5 million to close down the mine at the end of the third year of operation. What is this project's IRR?

An insurance firm agrees to pay you $3,310 at the end of 20 years if you pay premiums of $100 per year at the end of each year for 20 years. Find the internal rate of return to the nearest whole percentage point.

Assuming that the total cash flows are equal, the NPV of a project whose cash flows accrue relatively rapidly is more sensitive to changes in the discount rate than is the NPV of a project whose cash flows come in more slowly.

Which of the following statements is most correct?

Which of the following statements is most correct?

Because present value refers to the value of cash flows that occur at different points in time, present values cannot be added to determine the value of a capital budgeting project.

The modified IRR (MIRR) always leads to the same capital budgeting decisions as the NPV method.

Martin Manufacturers is considering a five-year investment which costs $100,000. The investment will produce cash flows of $25,000 each year for the first two years (t = 1 and t = 2), $50,000 a year for each of the remaining three years (t = 3, t = 4, and t = 5). The company has a cost of capital of 12 percent. What is the MIRR of the investment?

Johnson Jets is considering two mutually exclusive machines. Machine A has an up-front cost of $100,000 (CF0 = -100,000)Machine B has an up-front cost of $50,000(CF0 = -50,000)The company's cost of capital is 10.5 percent. What is the net present value (on a six-year extended basis) of the most profitable machine?

Under certain conditions, a particular project may have more than one IRR. One condition under which this situation can occur is if, in addition to the initial investment at time = 0, a negative cash flow occurs at the end of the project's life.

Conflicts between two mutually exclusive projects, where the NPV method chooses one project but the IRR method chooses the other, should generally be resolved in favor of the project with the higher NPV.