Giant Machinery Ltd is considering to invest in one of the two following Projects to buy a new equipment. Each project will last 5 years and have no salvage value at the end. The company’s required rate of return for all investment projects is 9%. The cash flows of the projects are provided below.   Project 1 Project 2 Cost $175,000 185,000 Future cash flows Year1 Year2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5   76,000 83,000 67,000 65,000 55,000   87,000 78,000 69,000 65,000 57,000 Required: a) Identify which project should the company accept based on NPV method.  (Note: Please round up the result of each calculation of PV to 2 decimal places only for simplification)  b) Identify which project should the company accept based on simple pay back method if the payback criteria is maximum 2 years.  c) Which project Giant Machinery should choose if two methods are in conflict.

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Giant Machinery Ltd is considering to invest in one of the two following Projects to buy a new equipment. Each project will last 5 years and have no salvage value at the end. The company’s required rate of return for all investment projects is 9%. The cash flows of the projects are provided below.

  Project 1 Project 2
Cost $175,000 185,000

Future cash flows

Year1

Year2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

 

76,000

83,000

67,000

65,000

55,000

 

87,000

78,000

69,000

65,000

57,000


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a) Identify which project should the company accept based on NPV method.  (Note: Please round up the result of each calculation of PV to 2 decimal places only for simplification) 

b) Identify which project should the company accept based on simple pay back method if the payback criteria is maximum 2 years. 

c) Which project Giant Machinery should choose if two methods are in conflict. 

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