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In Week 4 you will learn investment decision rules and the fundamentals of capital budgeting. Here are a couple of videos on this topic. Hope these videos are useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE80wLNIhjE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKQywwkIjQ AP # in Workspace Chapter # Problem # 1 8 4 4. Excel Solution Your firm is considering the launch of a new product, the XJ5. The upfront development cost is $10 million, and you expect to earn a cash flow of $3 million per year for the next five years. Plot the NPV profile for this project for discount rates ranging from 0% to 30%. For what range of discount rates is the project attractive? 8-4. See the table below for the NPVs given different discount rates: Rate NPV 0% $5,000,000 5% $2,988,430 10% $1,372,360 15% $56,465 20% ($1,028,164) 25% ($1,932,160) 30% ($2,693,291) The project should be accepted as long as the discount rate is below the IRR of 15.238237%.
2 8 8 The Internal Rate of Return Rule (Note: In most cases, you will find it helpful to use Excel to compute the IRR.) 8. You are considering an investment in a clothes distributor. The company needs $100,000 today and expects to repay you $120,000 a year from now. What is the IRR of this investment opportunity? Given the riskiness of the investment opportunity, your cost of capital is 20%. What does the IRR rule say about whether you should invest? 8-8. IRR = 120000/100000 – 1 = 20%. You are indifferent 3 9 1 Forecasting Earnings 1. Pisa Pizza, a seller of frozen pizza, is considering introducing a healthier version of its pizza that will be low in cholesterol and contain no trans fats. The firm expects that sales of the new pizza will be $20 million per year. While many of these sales will be to new customers, Pisa Pizza estimates that 40% will come from customers who switch to the new, healthier pizza instead of buying the original version. Assume customers will spend the same amount on either version. What level of incremental sales is associated with introducing the new pizza? Suppose that 50% of the customers who will switch from Pisa Pizza’s original pizza to its healthier pizza will switch to another brand if Pisa Pizza does not introduce a healthier pizza. What level of incremental sales is associated with introducing the new pizza in this case? 9-1. a. Sales of new pizza – lost sales of original = 20 – 0.40(20) = $12 million. b. Sales of new pizza – lost sales of original pizza from customers who would not have switched brands = 20 – 0.50(0.40)(20) = $16 million. 4 9 5
9-5. Since an increase in NWC is equivalent to a negative cash flow, the cash flow effects are as follows: Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Cash Flow 0 –14 –5 –6 –1 +4 In addition, if NWC reverts back to 0 in year 6, then the “increase” in NWC for year 6 is –22 and the cash flow caused by the change in NWC is +22. (Note that the sum of the NWC cash flows from years 0 to 6 is then 0.)
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