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- March 29, 2017 at 9:38 am #379517
Brown intends to start a new project producing either Product A or Product B. Each product will require an additional capital cost of $50 000. Both products are expected to last 4 years.
The following information is available on Product A:
1. Sales volume in year 1 would be 10000 units with a selling price of $7.
2. The volume would rise by 5% in year 2 and by another 5% in Year 3
3. Popularity is then expected to fall in year 4 and there would be a 20% fall in volume.
4. The selling price would not change.
5. The variable costs will be $3 per unit in year 1, will rise to $4 in year 2 and will then remain unchanged.
6. Annual fixed costs payable will be $11 000 and will remain unchanged.
Required
(a) Calculate the net cash flows for each year and in total for product A [10]
Additional Information
Brown’s cost of capital is 10% and the discount factors are: Year 10% 25%
1
0.909
0.800
2
0.826
0.640
3
0.751
0.512
4
0.683
0.410
Required
(b) Calculate the net present value of Product A. [5]
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(c) Calculate the Internal Rate of Return for Product A [7]
Additional Information
Brown has carried out the same calculations for product B. He has calculated the net present value of Product B as $30 400.
Required
(d) Advise Brown which product he should make based solely on the net present value. Justify your answer. [2]
(e) Explain why Brown may or may not use the payback method. [3]
(f) State three non-financial factors Brown should consider when choosing between Product A and Product B.My question is that i am obtaining positive value for both npvs. Is it possible?
March 29, 2017 at 5:52 pm #379576It is certainly possible to end up with 2 positive NPV’s – discounting at any rate less than the IRR will give a positive NPV.
And it is still perfectly easy to calculate an IRR using 2 positive NPV’s.
If you have not already done so then I do suggest that you watch my free lectures on this. The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F2 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
March 30, 2017 at 6:47 am #379614I have obtain IRR 28.6%. Is it correct?
March 30, 2017 at 8:34 am #379630You must have an answer to the question in the same book in which you found the question.
Any calculation of IRR is only an approximation (for the reasons I explain in the lecture) but if your answer is within around 1% of the answer in your book then your answer is almost certainly correct.
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