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An INDEPENDENT project costs $75,000 and will return cash flows of $10,000 for 3

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Question

An INDEPENDENT project costs $75,000 and will return cash flows of $10,000 for 3 years and $400,000 in year 4. In the fifth year, you will need to remove the equipment at a net cost of $356,000 (<- negative cash flow in year 5)

If you knew the firm's cost of capital rate (discount rate), which of the following measures would you use to determine whether to clearly ACCEPT or REJECT the project?

A) NPV

B) IRR

C) PI

D) Payback period

E) All of the above

F) NPV and PI

G) NPVPI and IRR

H) None of the above

Explanation / Answer

Answer is G) NPVPI and IRR

If NPV is postive project is acceptable

if Pi is more than 1 project i acceptable

if IRR is greater than Cost of capital Project is Acceptable