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- November 5, 2014 at 12:34 am #207755
Able Ltd is considering a new project for which the following information is available:
Initial cost- $300,000
expected life-5 years
estimated scrap value-$20,000
additional revenue from the project $120,000 per yer
incremental costs of the project-$30,000 per year
cost of capital- 10%how do you calculate :
-the payback period? [$300,000 -$20,000/5 years =56000/365=153,4]
-accounting rate of return of the project
-net present valueNovember 5, 2014 at 12:34 am #207756payback period= 153.4 days?
November 5, 2014 at 1:11 pm #207819You MUST watch the lectures because what you have done makes no sense at all.
The net cash inflow is 90,000 per year.
To get back 300,000 takes 300,000/90,000 = 3.33 years (or 3 years 4 months)
November 6, 2014 at 12:10 am #207913ok thank you, i didn’t know how to calculate the payback period pardon my wrong calculation but i will watch the lecture on it.
November 6, 2014 at 12:14 am #207914Net cash inflow is derived at subtracting incremental costs of the project-$30,000 per year from additional revenue from the project $120,000 per yer?
November 6, 2014 at 6:30 pm #208095Yes 🙂
November 7, 2014 at 6:34 am #208178hi i want to know when do we add or when do we subtract depreciation from the cash flows before calculating net present value or payback, because i saw in some examples the add depreciation and in some they subtract.
November 7, 2014 at 5:59 pm #208277You cannot have seen in some examples they subtract depreciation – not for NPV or payback.
For both of these, we use the cash flows. If you are given the cash flows then you use them. If, instead, you are given the profits then you need to add back the depreciation because depreciation is not a cash flow.
November 11, 2014 at 12:43 am #208941what about the accounting rate of return and NPV..
November 11, 2014 at 9:11 am #209018For accounting rate of return, we do use the profit after depreciation.
I answered about NPV in my last reply – we use the cash flow, which is before depreciation.
(Have you watched the lectures on this – I do think you should!)
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