A capital investment project requires expenditure of $90,000 in Year 0, followed by cash inflows of $30,000 at the end of each of the four years of the project’s life. The project will have a terminal value of $60,000. The payback period of the investment project is _____ years (round to the nearest year) Ans = 3 years. What is meant by terminal value and what had been its impact?
I thinkmthat here it means you could sell the eg pland and equipment initially bought for 90,000 for 60,000.
It has no impact here as payback is already achieved after 3 years.
It is bad phrasing because ‘terminal value’ has a specific meaning which doesn’t work here. It would have been better to say that the equipment had a resale value of 60,000 at the end of the project.