Exam 11: The Basics of Capital Budgeting

Simms Corp.is considering a project that has the following cash flow data.What is the project's IRR? Note that a project's projected IRR can be less than the WACC or negative,in both cases it will be rejected.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT? Assume that the project being considered has normal cash flows,with one outflow followed by a series of inflows.

Lasik Vision Inc.recently analyzed the project whose cash flows are shown below.However,before Lasik decided to accept or reject the project,the Federal Reserve took actions that changed interest rates and therefore the firm's WACC.The Fed's action did not affect the forecasted cash flows.By how much did the change in the WACC affect the project's forecasted NPV? Note that a project's projected NPV can be negative,in which case it should be rejected.

Tesar Chemicals is considering Projects S and L,whose cash flows are shown below.These projects are mutually exclusive,equally risky,and not repeatable.The CEO believes the IRR is the best selection criterion,while the CFO advocates the NPV.If the decision is made by choosing the project with the higher IRR rather than the one with the higher NPV,how much,if any,value will be forgone,i.e.,what's the chosen NPV versus the maximum possible NPV? Note that (1)"true value" is measured by NPV,and (2)under some conditions the choice of IRR vs.NPV will have no effect on the value gained or lost.

Mansi Inc.is considering a project that has the following cash flow data.What is the project's payback?

Four of the following statements are truly disadvantages of the regular payback method,but one is not a disadvantage of this method.Which one is NOT a disadvantage of the payback method?

Warr Company is considering a project that has the following cash flow data.What is the project's IRR? Note that a project's projected IRR can be less than the WACC or negative,in both cases it will be rejected.

Normal Projects S and L have the same NPV when the discount rate is zero.However,Project S's cash flows come in faster than those of L.Therefore,we know that at any discount rate greater than zero,L will have the higher NPV.

Masulis Inc.is considering a project that has the following cash flow and WACC data.What is the project's discounted payback?

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Which of the following statements is CORRECT? Assume that the project being considered has normal cash flows,with one outflow followed by a series of inflows.

For a project with one initial cash outflow followed by a series of positive cash inflows,the modified IRR (MIRR)method involves compounding the cash inflows out to the end of the project's life,summing those compounded cash flows to form a terminal value (TV),and then finding the discount rate that causes the PV of the TV to equal the project's cost.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Suppose a firm relies exclusively on the payback method when making capital budgeting decisions,and it sets a 4-year payback regardless of economic conditions.Other things held constant,which of the following statements is most likely to be true?

Hindelang Inc.is considering a project that has the following cash flow and WACC data.What is the project's MIRR? Note that a project's projected MIRR can be less than the WACC (and even negative),in which case it will be rejected.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT? Assume that the project being considered has normal cash flows,with one outflow followed by a series of inflows.

If the IRR of normal Project X is greater than the IRR of mutually exclusive (and also normal)Project Y,we can conclude that the firm should always select X rather than Y if X has NPV > 0.

Projects S and L are equally risky,mutually exclusive,and have normal cash flows.Project S has an IRR of 15%,while Project L's IRR is 12%.The two projects have the same NPV when the WACC is 7%.Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Tuttle Enterprises is considering a project that has the following cash flow and WACC data.What is the project's NPV? Note that if a project's projected NPV is negative,it should be rejected.