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Chapter 5

Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules

McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Chapter Outline
5.1 Why Use Net Present Value?
5.2 The Payback Period Method
5.4 The Internal Rate of Return
5.6 The Profitability Index

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5.1 Net Present Value


 The Net Present Value (NPV) of an
investment is the present value of the
expected cash flows, less the cost of the
investment.
 NPV = –Cost + PV = Initial Investment +
Total PV of future CF’s

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5.2 The Net Present Value (NPV)
Rule
The basic investment rule can be generalized to
(Independent investments):
 Accept a project if the NPV is greater than
zero.
 Reject a project if NPV is less than zero

Mutually Exclusive Investments (Ranking


Criteria): Choose the highest NPV and NPV>0

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Questions
 1b (page 162)

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5.2 The Payback Period Method


 How long does it take the project to “pay
back” its initial investment?
 Payback Period = number of years to recover
initial costs
 Minimum Acceptance Criteria:
 Set by management
 Ranking Criteria:
 Set by management
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The Payback Period Method
 Disadvantages:
 Ignores the time value of money
 Ignores cash flows after the payback period
 Biased against long-term projects
 Requires an arbitrary acceptance criteria
 A project accepted based on the payback
criteria may not have a positive NPV
 Advantages:
 Easy to understand
 Biased toward liquidity
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Questions
 1a (page 162)

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5.4 The Internal Rate of Return


 IRR: the discount rate that sets NPV to zero
 Minimum Acceptance Criteria:
 Accept if the IRR exceeds the required return
 Ranking Criteria:
 Select alternative with the highest IRR
 Reinvestment assumption:
 All future cash flows are assumed to be
reinvested at the IRR

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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
 Disadvantages:
 Does not distinguish between investing and
borrowing
 IRR may not exist, or there may be multiple IRRs
 Problems with mutually exclusive investments

 Advantages:
 Easy to understand and communicate

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NPV versus IRR


 NPV and IRR will generally give the same
decision.
 Exceptions:
 Non-conventional cash flows – cash flow signs
change more than once
 Mutually exclusive projects
 Initial investments are substantially different
 Timing of cash flows is substantially different

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Questions
 5,6

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5.6 The Profitability Index (PI)

 Minimum Acceptance Criteria:


 Accept if PI > 1

 Ranking Criteria:
 Select alternative with highest PI

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The Profitability Index


 Disadvantages:
 Problems with mutually exclusive investments
 Advantages:
 May be useful when available investment funds
are limited
 Easy to understand and communicate
 Correct decision when evaluating independent
projects

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Questions
 8

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Summary – Discounted Cash Flow
 Net present value
 Difference between market value and cost
 Accept the project if the NPV is positive
 Has no serious problems
 Preferred decision criterion
 Internal rate of return
 Discount rate that makes NPV = 0
 Take the project if the IRR is greater than the required return
 Same decision as NPV with conventional cash flows
 IRR is unreliable with non-conventional cash flows or mutually exclusive
projects
 Profitability Index
 Benefit-cost ratio
 Take investment if PI > 1
 Cannot be used to rank mutually exclusive projects
 May be used to rank projects in the presence of capital rationing

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Summary – Payback Criteria


 Payback period
 Length of time until initial investment is recovered
 Take the project if it pays back in some specified period
 Does not account for time value of money, and there is an
arbitrary cutoff period
 Discounted payback period
 Length of time until initial investment is recovered on a
discounted basis
 Take the project if it pays back in some specified period
 There is an arbitrary cutoff period

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