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    • The PV of the scrap is 1845.
      This would have to fall by 5329 to end up with a NPV of zero.

      So in percentage terms this is a fall of 5329/1845 x 100% = 289%

      However (as I do state in the lecture) this is ridiculous because it would mean that the scrap value would have to be negative! Usually, obviously the most it can fall is 100% down to zero. So you would state that the scrap is not sensitive at all.

      (The only time it could possibly be relevant is if there were a possibility of us having to pay money to scrap the machine, which is very unlikely)

    • What you have to ask yourself is will it make the NPV worse if it gets higher or lower.

      So, for example, as far as the revenue is concerned, we are only worried if it should fall – so the sensitivy is negative (it measures the percentage fall that we can afford).
      But as far as the cost of capital is concerned, we are only worried if it should increase – so the sensitivity is positive (it measures the percentage increase that we can afford).

  3. Hey John, Why u didn’t do cost of captial sensitivity? However I done it by my self and the IRR comes = 15.842%. I took 20% as another npv that resulted in ($26306).

    Now as per your formulae: NPV/PV of changes x 100% = 15%/15.842% x 100% = ~95%

    BUT I think its wrong?

    • Errrr….yes you are wrong 🙂

      The change is 15.842-15 = 0.842.

      So the percentage change from the actual cost of capital is 0.824/15 x 100% = 5.5%

      (The answers to all of the examples are at the back of the Course Notes 🙂 )

      • Hi John,

        I had a go at part VI to test that I remembered IRR. heres the thing- I chose 16% as my comparative rate of interest and therefore got an NPV of -2036

        therefore my calculation for IRR was (5329/7365)+15% = 15.72%

        Surely IRR cannot be tested in the MCQ because there is no set rule for the comparative rate of interest?

        I trust the examiner will have thought about this 🙂

        Thanks for the lectures- they have been great so far albeit that i’m a little behind schedule for the March exam

      • The examiner certainly can (and has) asked MCQ’s calculating the IRR.

        He can do this either by specifying which ‘guesses’ to use in the calculation, or by asking for it to the nearest %’age.

    • At present the NPV is 5329, and we need to know the % fall in sales volume that will give NPV of zero.

      If the sales volume per year falls, then the contribution per year falls, and therefore so too will be present value of the contribution flows. At present the present value of the contribution flows is 241189 – we need this to fall by 5329, which is a 2.2% fall.

  8. Wow, couldn’t be better. Nevertheless, if a question asked us to evaluate sensitivity for sales volume, sales price and variable cost it appears we would have the same change in the variables (for all of them) if we only calculated the PV for contribution only and not the independent variables i.e. separate PV for sales price and variable cost respectively. What I want to know is that wont such an approach limit us on the marks awarded?

    • @adeel15, you can easily understand this if you went back to the video on the IRR. I have found it to be easy actually. Remember that the IRR gives you the cost of capital that will result into NPV of Zero. Compare that IRR (which you must calculate with the information in the question) with the cost of capital (we have been given). The difference in percentage terms is the sensitivity on cost of capital.

  16. hi. i used the same approach for sensitivity for qn dec 01 tower railways inc. i got 2003/10771 X 100% = 18.6% 🙁 no where near their ans. of 20.87% or fall in px of $2.50. Moreover their explanations n calculations are far more confusing !! pls help !!! tks

  18. hi i’m new to this and i need some advise on how many sub to do this time.. I’m doing f8 and p2… and i had to fill my form for f9 as well in order to do my p2…I dont know shall i do f9 or shall i leave it for next term..

    • @dayah,
      In my opinion, we are currently getting a NPV of +5329, in order to result in a NPV of zero(Breakeven analysis), we can let the sales volume to drop by that percentage.
      And hence, it is negative.
      Similarly, we can let the cont. p.u. to drop by 2.21%, it’s also negative.
      That’s the conclusion I came to and I hope it will help,

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