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Investment Appraisal Under Uncertainty: Sensitivity Analysis (example 1) – ACCA Financial Management (FM)

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  1. wwwilliams says

    October 7, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    If the sensitivity has a low percentage do we say that the component of NPV calculated is has a high sensitivity? I thought we would say the sensitivity to change is high if the percentage is low. The semantics confuse me.

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    • John Moffat says

      October 8, 2020 at 10:15 am

      The lower the % then the more sensitive it is to change.

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      • wwwilliams says

        October 8, 2020 at 3:05 pm

        thank you

      • John Moffat says

        October 8, 2020 at 3:47 pm

        You are welcome 馃檪

  2. yinnnn says

    March 29, 2020 at 2:39 pm

    Hi, John. I don鈥檛 understand under what circumstances should fixed costs be involved in the calculation? And under what circumstances fixed costs should be ignored in the calculation . Thanks.

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    • John Moffat says

      March 29, 2020 at 3:00 pm

      When calculating the NPV all incremental costs are included.

      As far as calculating the sensitive of individual items, it depends what changes as a result. So if asked for the sensitivity of fixed costs then we calculate the PV of the fixed costs. However if asked for the sensitive of, for example the selling price or the contribution, the fixed costs are not relevant because they will not change if the selling price or the contribution changes.

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  3. visheshparyani says

    December 4, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    Hey John, I’m looking for the lecture in which the IRR of a perpetuity is calculated. I remembering you explaining it but cannot find that very lecture. Could you please help me out?

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    • John Moffat says

      December 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm

      I cannot remember which lecture, but the IRR of a perpetuity is simply the annual cash flow divided by the initial investment expressed as a %.

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      • visheshparyani says

        December 5, 2019 at 5:13 pm

        Thanks John 馃檪

      • John Moffat says

        December 6, 2019 at 8:06 am

        You are welcome 馃檪

  4. natalieward93 says

    August 13, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    How have you calculated the contribution at 2.95 per unit x 15,000?

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    • natalieward93 says

      August 13, 2019 at 9:16 pm

      sorry was on the wrong example

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  5. John Moffat says

    March 5, 2019 at 3:00 pm

    issmmmm: I would really need to see the actual question to be able to answer you properly, and the ACCA has not published this question.

    If it was really as you state (in which case I assume is was one of the 2 mark questions) then you would have to do it in the same way as calculating an IRR i.e. try two different tax rates and then approximate between them.

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    • issmmmm says

      March 5, 2019 at 4:06 pm

      thank you very much sir for your response I will try as per your instruction .

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  6. issmmmm says

    March 5, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    Sir In Exam Sept 2018 there was a question related to sensitive Analysis in which examiner asked which Tax rate will be used which make NPV zero. Can you please explain how to calculate sensitive analysis for a ta rate. looking forward to your help
    Thanks in Advance

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