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  • This topic has 9 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 10 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • November 5, 2014 at 12:34 am #207755
    Shanda
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    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 value

    November 5, 2014 at 12:34 am #207756
    Shanda
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    payback period= 153.4 days?

    November 5, 2014 at 1:11 pm #207819
    John Moffat
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    You 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 #207913
    Shanda
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    ok 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 #207914
    Shanda
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    Net 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 #208095
    John Moffat
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    Yes 🙂

    November 7, 2014 at 6:34 am #208178
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    hi 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 #208277
    John Moffat
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    You 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 #208941
    Shanda
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    what about the accounting rate of return and NPV..

    November 11, 2014 at 9:11 am #209018
    John Moffat
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    For 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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