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- June 6, 2017 at 3:42 pm #390911
An investment project has a cost of $12,000, payable at the start of the first year of operation. The possible future cash flows arising from the investment project have the following present values and associated probabilities:
PV of Year 1 Cash Flow ($)
16,000 (probability ~ 0.15)
12,000 (probability ~ 0.60)
(4,000) (probability ~ 0.25)PV of year 2 cash flow ($)
20,000 (probability ~ 0.75)
(2,000) (probability ~ 0.25)What is the expected value of the net present value of the investment project?
Answer is 11,100.
Im not getting this figure, getting around 14,000.
June 6, 2017 at 3:58 pm #390917What is the cost of capital? your answer will depend on the cost of capital applied.
June 6, 2017 at 4:03 pm #390920Thats the Issue as well. They haven’t given any cost of capital. That is the only information provided by the examiner. Mr Moffat please help us ? .
June 6, 2017 at 6:45 pm #391024KOFI44: Please don’t answer in this forum – it is Ask the Tutor, and you are not the tutor. (But please do help people in the other F9 forum).
June 6, 2017 at 6:45 pm #391025mracca11: You do not need to know the cost of capital, because the figures given have already been discounted – they are the present values.
The expected PV of the year 1 flows is: (0.15 x 16,000) + (0.60 x 12,000) – (0.25 x 4,000) = 8,600.
The expected PV of the year 2 flows is: (0.75 x 20,000) – (0.25 x 2,000) = 14,500.Therefore the expected NPV is 8,600 + 14,500 – 12,000 = 11,100.
June 6, 2017 at 6:54 pm #391038John Moffat
Apologies, I’m new to open tuition so accept my apology.June 6, 2017 at 7:01 pm #391041No problem 🙂
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