Essays Tagged: "Payback period"

Industrial project management for Albion LTD

CONTENTSContentsPage 2IntroductionPage 3I/ Project ScopePage 4II/ Initial Project AppraisalPage 5A/ Payback Period of the ProjectPage 5B/ Return On InvestmentPage 5C/ Net Present ValuePage 6D/ Interna ... estimated cost is £3 million. It will involve the redundancy of 60 workers of the company.A/ PAYBACK PERIOD OF THE PROJECTThe payback period of the project is the period from the beginning of t ...

(23 pages) 322 0 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Project Evaluation - Using CAPM

ure of Sport Shoes.b)Why Might Sporball's new project team choose to evaluate the project using the payback method? How might others shareholders react to this choice of technique?As an alternative me ... technique?As an alternative method, the evaluator team might consider make a decision based in the Payback method, as this is another way to appraise projects but with some advantages and disadvantag ...

(7 pages) 269 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Risk and net Present value

Contents1.1 Introduction1.2 NET PRESENT VALUE (NPV)1.3 ADVANTAGES OF NPV1.4 DISADVANTAGES OF NPV1.5 PAYBACK1.6 Arguments in favour of payback1.7 Debt vs Equity1.8 Equity equals Ownership (Share Profit ... nal and discounted cash flow techniques. Traditional methods include the Average Rate of Return and Payback; discounted cash flow (DCF) methods using Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return.1.2 ...

(31 pages) 1297 0 4.8 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

THE SARAVINA AIRPORT AUTHORITY ACTIVITIES

ar.In this study case, we decided to consider that 2003 is the year 0 and discount rate equal to 8%.Payback periodeThe Payback period of a project is the number of years it takes before the cumulative ... dividual investment but several investments that are realized over several years, so, calculating a payback period is very flawed because it ignores later year cash flows and the present value of futu ...

(2 pages) 32 0 1.0 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Financial Management

tatement showing the incremental cash flows for this project over an 8-year period.2. Calculate the Payback Period (P/B) and the NPV for the project.3. Based on your answer for question 2, do you thin ... answer for question 2, do you think the project should be accepted? Why? Assume Superior has a P/B (payback) policy of not accepting projects with life of over three years.4. If the project required a ...

(4 pages) 240 0 3.7 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Investment apprial.

d. The NPV approach is not the only method to evaluate an investment, other approaches, such as the payback rule, the average accounting return, the internal rate of return, etc, are also commonly use ... e average accounting return, the internal rate of return, etc, are also commonly used by firms. The payback rule is widely used by large firms, because of its convenience to calculate. What is the rat ...

(3 pages) 122 0 3.7 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Case-study for finance: Which is the best choice for the Verdin company?

representativesacquisition1the investment measurement used in the process of firm's capital budget.Payback period:The payback period of a project is the time necessary to recover the initial outlayIR ... by adding all the cash flows for each year as the amount whe ,,n it occurred.The process:Project 1 payback period=6 yearsCalculating processProject 4:IRR=13.4Calculating process:Project 6: Spread=9.4 ...

(9 pages) 221 0 5.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Cash Flow Statement

0 80,000 357,0007 1,500,000 825,000 80,000 357,0008 1,700,000 825,000 80,000 477,0002.Calculate the Payback Period (P/B) and the NPV for the project.The payback period is how long it will take for a p ... stment back.Y= year for full recovery of total investment or TIU = Unrecovered costsCFI CF yearPB = Payback = y + u/cfiThe TI = 1,200,000 so at the end of three years that total recovered would be $ 1 ...

(2 pages) 102 0 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Norwich Tool's Lathe Investment Decision

nflows associated with each lathe shown in Table 1. Also included in this report are assessments of payback period, net present value (NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR) which will complete the c ... lathe would be more beneficial to Norwich Tools concludes this analysis.Table 1(Gitman, 2006, p.398)Payback Period MethodGitman (2006) defines the payback period as "the amount of time required for th ...

(5 pages) 23 0 3.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Caledonia Products Integrative Problem

c questions from the Financial Management: Principles and Applications text. What is each project's payback period? What is each project's net present value? What is each project's internal rate of re ... urchasing versus leasing so that Caledonia can make an educated decision regarding their decision.a)Payback period for Caledonia Products is as follows:Project A = 2 yrs + (32000/ (100000-64000) yrs = ...

(2 pages) 232 0 5.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Analysis of Capital Budgeting Decision: NPV, IRR and Pay-back

t four years of the sales expansion project is 241888 and that of the replacement project is 169088.Payback Period, NPV and IRRThe process of evaluating the different proposals for investing the avail ... NPV method, which is considered as its most significant advantage because this factor is ignored by payback and ARR methods.•Suitable in uneven cash flows: In case of uneven cash flows, this meth ...

(8 pages) 76 0 0.0 Dec/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

"Caladonia Products" Integrative Problem Paper

which one of those projects will assure the best investment for the company. The calculation of the payback period of each project, the net present value, and the internal rate of return will help the ... mine which project is best for Caledonia, several variables must be considered. These variables are payback period, net present value (NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR). Once these values are ca ...

(4 pages) 73 0 1.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Guillermo Furniture Store Analysis

ving an objective (BusinessDictionary.com, 2010). For his intended purposes, Guillermo will use the Payback Made Simple, NPV, IRR, and Payback Discounted.Payback Made SimpleThe payback period is the e ... low of cash from the second year of $42,573, resulting in -$214,854. Therefore, the calculations of payback occurred during the third year. If the $40,584 of inflows comes in evenly during the third y ...

(6 pages) 239 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management