Foundations of Financial Management
Foundations of Financial Management
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ISBN: 9781259277160
Author: Stanley B. Block, Geoffrey A. Hirt, Bartley Danielsen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To explain: The weakness of the payback period.

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Pay-back period (PBP):

It is one of the methods of capital budgeting that helps evaluate the time period in which the amount of initial investment is recovered. The formula for the calculation of PBP is shown below:

Pay-Back Period=Year+Initial InvestmentCumulative Cash FlowCash FLow

Where,

Year = The year in which cumulative cash flow is near and less than the initial investment.

Initial investment = The amount of the investment.

Cumulative cash flow = The cumulative cash flow which is near and less than the initial investment.

Cash flow = The cash flow of the next year from the “Year� used for the calculation.

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