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ABC Company is planning to take any one of the following 2 projects:
Project A Project B
Year Cash flow (Tk.) Year Cash flow (Tk.)
0 ‐50,000 0 ‐50,000
1 20,000 1 30,000
2 30,000 2 20,000
3 40,000 3 40,000
Requirements:
a. Calculate the pay back period for both projects & suggest the company which of
these projects should the Company choose? [Cut off pay back is 3 years]
b. What are the problems from which your evaluation in part a) suffers?
c. Calculate the NPV of the projects using a 10% discount rate & decide which project
you should choose.
d. Do you have any conflict in decisions between a. & c.? Why?
2. DEF Company is planning to take any one of the following 2 projects:
Project A Project B
Year Cash flow (Tk.) Year Cash flow (Tk.)
0 ‐50,000 0 ‐50,000
1 30,000 1 30,000
2 40,000 2 40,000
3 50,000 3 100,000
Requirements:
e. Calculate the pay back period for both projects & suggest the company which of
these projects should the Company choose? [Cut off pay back is 3 years]
f. What are the problems from which your evaluation in part a) suffers?
g. Calculate the NPV of the projects using a 10% discount rate & decide which project
you should choose.
h. Do you have any conflict in decisions between a. & c.? Why?
3. PPP Company wants to purchase a machine that will cost them BDT 500,000. The
machine has an economic life of 10 years. It will generate pretax profits of BDT 40,000
after one year which will grow at a rate of 5% per year till year 10. The machine will be
depreciated to zero over 10 years using straight – line method depreciation.
Requirements:
a. Calculate the Average Accounting Return (AAR) of the project. (Tax rate is 34%)
b. Should you take the project if the AAR cut off value is %?
4. NDT Company has an option to invest BDT 50,000 in a project. Depreciation of this will
be BDT 25,000 in year 1, BDT 15,625 in year 2 & BDT 9,375 in year 3. The pre tax profit
expected to generate is BDT 12,000 per year.
Requirements:
a. What is the AAR of this project? (Tax rate is 25%)
b. What are the three flaws of AAR?
5. FZR can introduce any of the following projects. The cash flows are as follows:
Project A Project B
Year Cash flow ($) Year Cash flow ($)
0 -5,000 0 -100,000
1 3,500 1 60,000
2 2,000 2 50,000
3 500 3 10,000
4 500 4 1,000
Requirements:
a. Calculate the NPV of both projects and suggest which project should the
company choose? [Appropriate discount rate is 15%]
b. Calculate the IRR & suggest which project should the company choose?
c. Do you have any conflict in decision between part a. & part b.? Why?
d. Calculate incremental NPV & incremental IRR and give decisions.
6. WGM Company is planning to build one shopping mall either at Banani or at
Dhanmondi. The cash flows from the projects are as follows:
Dhanmondi Banani
Year Cash flow ($) Year Cash flow ($)
0 -1,500,000 0 -1,500,000
1 800,000 1 300,000
2 460,000 2 460,000
3 400,000 3 500,000
4 150,000 4 680,000
Requirements:
a. Calculate the NPV of both projects and suggest which project should the
company choose? [Appropriate discount rate is 8%]
b. Calculate the IRR & suggest which project should the company choose?
c. Do you have any conflict in decision between part a. & part b.? Why?
d. Calculate incremental NPV & incremental IRR and give decisions.