Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 10, Problem 28QP
Issues in Capital Budgeting [LO1] The debate regarding CFLs versus incandescent bulbs (see Problems 25–27) has even more wrinkles. In no particular order:
1. Incandescent bulbs generate a lot more heat than CFLs.
2. CFL prices will probably decline relative to incandescent bulbs.
3. CFLs unavoidably contain small amounts of mercury, a significant environmental hazard, and special precautions must be taken in disposing of burned-out units (and also in cleaning up a broken lamp). Currently, there is no agreed-upon way to recycle a CFL. Incandescent bulbs pose no disposal/breakage hazards.
4. Depending on a light’s location (or the number of lights), there can be a nontrivial cost to change bulbs (i.e., labor cost in a business).
5. Coal-fired power generation accounts for a substantial portion of the mercury emissions in the U.S., though the emissions will drop sharply in the relatively near future.
6. Power generation accounts for a substantial portion of CO2 emissions in the U.S.
7. CFLs are more energy and material intensive to manufacture. On-site mercury contamination and worker safety are issues.
8. If you install a CFL in a permanent lighting fixture in a building, you will probably move long before the CFL burns out.
9. Another lighting technology based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) exists and is improving. LEDs are currently much more expensive than CFLs, but costs are coming down. LEDs last much longer than CFLs and use even less power. Plus, LEDs don’t contain mercury.
Qualitatively, how do these issues affect your position in the CFL versus incandescent lightbulb debate? Some countries have banned incandescent bulbs. Does your analysis suggest such a move is wise? Are there other regulations short of an outright ban that make sense to you?
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Question 6
a. What are the shortcomings of the internal rate of return criterion? How do you make an investment
decision based on the IRR? How would the NPV of the same project look?
b. An electric car manufacturer worries that the price of the Lithium-ion battery might increase in the future,
which would make it more expensive to produce cars. Discuss at least two strategies you can use to hedge
the firm's exposure to rising battery prices.
c. Explain the difference between unique risk and systematic risk
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Question 6
What of the following is a drawback of using the payback method to evaluate capital projects?
O Payback can result in value-decreasing decisions
O Payback does not consider the time value of money
O Payback does not consider risk
O Payback does not consider all the cash flows of the project
O All choices are correct
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