Usually, companies determine a standard payback time period, for projects "such as two years or two quarters" when screening potential investments (Sehlhorst 2006). One justification for such hard and fast rules is that the longer the investment takes to 'pay back' given the expected firm profits, the more likely the capital expended upon the investment could have been better used on something else, including more innovative and potentially less

28% This gives project B. An IRR of -0.028% Part C Using the above assessments each may indicate which investment may be preferred. Using the payback period project a has a payback period of 4 years, whereas project B. has a payback period of 3 years 8 months. If the fastest payback period is preferred than project B. will be chosen. The NPV which discounts the net revenues into a net present value shows

Superior Living Final CEO, CFO, Superior Living New Production Facility Proposal and Initial Public Offering (IPO) This report will address a few of the different strategic issues that the company faces going forward. We know that the company is proposing to build a new production facility, and there are a lot of concerns internally about that proposal. This proposal must be considered from a financial and strategic perspective. From a financial perspective, there

ABC Supermarket PLC Case Analysis Ratio Analysis The results of ABC Supermarket's financial performance are very different from the comments shared by the Chairman in the 2009 Annual report. Based on the evaluation below, the company's cash, profitability, and liquidity positions all weakened between 2006 and 2009. They also had an issue with managing inventory. However, the stock price increased successively over this period of time. This may have been a factor of

The IRR is also known as yield method, and IRR of a project is the rate of discount at which the present value of cash flow is equal to the present value of cash inflow. While IRR base the value on rate of return, the ARR ignores the time value of money and it is not accounting based of return. Under ARR, depreciation is calculated in different methods such as

Capital Budgeting is a vital part of any business. Investment decisions, which need time to mature, must be based on the returns that they will make. If investment in a project is unprofitable in the long run, it would be unwise to invest in it. However, if the investment will be profitable, it is important to determine this early in the game. Because huge sums of money can be lost if