CAPITAL BUDGETING III
Objective: Focus on interrelationship between a firm’s Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value, and various discount rates.
I. Investments
A. Simple investments
1. Involves an initial cash out‑flow followed by a series of cash in‑flows.
2. Graphical illustrations given
B. Non‑simple investments
1. Involves at least one change of sign in cash flows
2. Graphical illustrations given
C. Pure investments
1. Project balance negative until completion of project
D. Mixed investments
1. Project balance at least one time is zero
II. Net Present Value Profile
A. Example is given
1. Factors
a. Original Expected Expected
Project Cost Annual Return Life
A $10,000 $2,000 10 years
B $26,000 $3,000 15 years
b. Percentages of 1%, 2%, 6%, 8%, 24, and 16% are used
c. Plot results on a Net Present Value profile for both projects
2. Results
a. Project A ‑‑ a positive NPV until approximately 15%, which is this projects Internal Rate of Return.
b. Project B ‑‑ a positive NPV until approximately 8%, which is this projects Internal Rate of Return.
c. Based only upon Internal Rate of Return, Project A is preferred, however, this does not consider cost of capital.
d. Assuming a cost of capital of 3%, project B is desirable because at this point its NPV is greater.
e. Assuming a cost of capital of 7%, project A is desirable because at this point its NPV is greater.
f. Assuming a cost of capital between 8% ‑ 15%, project A is desirable because it has a positive NPV.
g. Assuming a cost of capital greater than 15%, neither project
is desirable.
h. Net Present Value Profile:
20 ‑
16 ‑
12 –
8 ‑
4 ‑
Discount
0 _________________________________________ rate (%)
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Project A
4 ‑
8 ‑ Project B
III. Capital Budgeting Incorporating Risk
A. Expected return maximization
1. Determine projects.
2. Look at states of nature and assign probabilities totaling to one.
3. Determine returns for each project for each state of nature.
4. Calculate expected returns.
5. Project with the highest expected value is most desirable.
Period Cash Flow
0 -1800
1 450
2 450
3 450
4 450
5 450
6 450
7 450
8 450
9 450
10 450
11 450
12 450
13 450
14 450
15 450
16 -6750
Discount Annuity Fn Single Pmt Clean-up Net
Rate Factor Times Factor Times Present
15 Periods Factor 16 Periods Factor Value
0.0% ERR ERR 1.00 -6750 -1800
1.0% 13.87 6239 0.85 -5757 -1304
2.0% 12.85 5782 0.73 -4917 -917
3.0% 11.94 5372 0.62 -4206 -616
4.0% 11.12 5003 0.53 -3604 -385
5.0% 10.38 4671 0.46 -3092 -211
6.0% 9.71 4371 0.39 -2657 -82
7.0% 9.11 4099 0.34 -2286 11
8.0% 8.56 3852 0.29 -1970 75
9.0% 8.06 3627 0.25 -1700 117
10.0% 7.61 3423 0.22 -1469 140
11.0% 7.19 3236 0.19 -1271 149
12.0% 6.81 3065 0.16 -1101 146
13.0% 6.46 2908 0.14 -955 135
14.0% 6.14 2764 0.12 -830 118
15.0% 5.85 2631 0.11 -721 96
16.0% 5.58 2509 0.09 -628 70
17.0% 5.32 2396 0.08 -547 41
18.0% 5.09 2291 0.07 -478 11
19.0% 4.88 2194 0.06 -417 -20
20.0% 4.68 2104 0.05 -365 -51
21.0% 4.49 2020 0.05 -320 -82
22.0% 4.32 1942 0.04 -280 -113
23.0% 4.15 1869 0.04 -246 -144
24.0% 4.00 1801 0.03 -216 -174
25.0% 3.86 1737 0.03 -190 -203
26.0% 3.73 1677 0.02 -167 -231
27.0% 3.60 1620 0.02 -147 -257
28.0% 3.48 1568 0.02 -130 -283
29.0% 3.37 1518 0.02 -115 -308
30.0% 3.27 1471 0.02 -101 -331
IRR 1 = 6.86%
IRR 2 = 18.37%
Multiple Rates of Return
0.2 –
0.1 –
0 –
-0.1 –
-0.2 –
-0.3 –
-0.4 –
-0.5 –
-0.6 –
-0.7 –
-0.8 –
-0.9 –
-1 –
-1.1 –
-1.2 –
-1.3 –
-1.4 –
-1.5 –
-1.6 –
-1.7 –
-1.8 –
0% 4% 8% 12% 16% 20% 24% 28%
Discount Rate
QUESTIONS
True and False
1. Simple investment involves at least one change of sign in cash flows.
2. Lower Internal Rate of Return is preferable to higher.
3. A non‑simple investment may graphically have two internal rates of return.
4. The project with the maximum expect return may not necessarily be the best project.
Matching
1. Simple investment A. Project balance negative until
completion of project.
2. Non‑simple investment B. Involves an initial cash out‑flow
followed by a series of cash in‑
3. Pure investment flows.
C. Project balance at least one
4. Mixed investment balance is zero.
D. Involves at least one change of
sign as far as cash flows.
© Copyright 2002 Arlyn R. Rubash