In this assignment, you will learn about the capital budgeting process, which is basically how companies evaluate their investment in various projects, such as buying new machinery or expanding into a new plant. In addition, you will learn about the following techniques used in capital budgeting:

• Net Present Value.
• Internal Rate of Return.
• Modified Internal Rate of Return.
• Payback Period.
• Discounted Payback Period.
• Profitability Index.

Instructions

Answer the following questions and complete the following problems, as applicable.

You may solve the following problems algebraically, or you may use a financial calculator or Excel spreadsheet. If you choose to solve the problems algebraically, be sure to show your computations. If you use a financial calculator, show your input values. If you use an Excel spreadsheet, show your input values and formulas.

Note: In addition to your solution to each computational problem, you must show the supporting work leading to your solution to receive credit for your answer.

• Question 1:
• Proficient-level: Describe the Net Present Value (NPV) method for determining a capital budgeting project's desirability. What is the acceptance benchmark when using NPV?
• Distinguished-level: Identify the NPV method's strengths and weaknesses.
• Question 2:
• Proficient-level: What is the payback period statistic? What is the acceptance benchmark when using the payback period statistic?
• Distinguished-level: Identify what problem of the Payback Period method is corrected by using the Discounted Payback Period method.
• Question 3:
• Proficient-level: Describe the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) method for determining a capital budgeting project's desirability. What is the acceptance benchmark when using IRR?
• Distinguished-level: Explain how the NPV and IRR methods are similar and how they are different.
• Question 4:
• Proficient-level: Describe the Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) method for determining a capital budgeting project's desirability. What are MIRR's strengths and weaknesses?
• Distinguished-level: Explain the differences in the reinvestment rate assumption that distinguishes MIRR from IRR.
• Question 5:
• Proficient-level: Compute the NPV statistic for Project Y and tell [advise] whether the firm should accept or reject the project with the cash flows shown in the chart if the appropriate cost of capital is 12 percent.
• Distinguished-level: Explain how decreases in the cost of capital lead to an increase in the number of approved projects.

Project Y

(Cornett, Adair, & Nofsinger, 2016, p. 332).

• Question 6:
• Proficient-level: Compute the payback period statistic for Project A and recommend whether the firm should accept or reject the project with the cash flows shown in the chart if the maximum allowable payback is four years.
• Distinguished-level: If the discounted payback period were computed, identify if it would be less than, equal to, or greater than the non-discounted payback period.

Project A

(Cornett, Adair, & Nofsinger, 2016).

Submit your completed assignment as an attachment in the assignment area. You may use either a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet for your work, but not both. Prior to submitting your assignment, review the Estimating Risk and Return Scoring Guide to ensure you have met all of the requirements and as a self-assessment of your work.

Reference

Cornett, M. M., Adair, T. A., & Nofsinger J. (2016). M: Finance (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.