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An investment project costs $22,761 and has annual cash flows of $10,267 for six years. What is the discounted payback period if the discount rate is 5 percent?
| Year | Discount factor | Cash Flow | Present value of cash flow | Cumulative present value of cash flow | |
| a | b=1.05^-a | c | d=c*b | e | |
| 0 | 1.0000 | $ -22,761 | $ -22,761 | $ -22,761 | |
| 1 | 0.9524 | $ 10,267 | $ 9,778 | $ -12,983 | |
| 2 | 0.9070 | $ 10,267 | $ 9,312 | $ -3,670 | |
| 3 | 0.8638 | $ 10,267 | $ 8,869 | $ 5,199 | |
| 4 | 0.8227 | $ 10,267 | $ 8,447 | $ 13,645 | |
| 5 | 0.7835 | $ 10,267 | $ 8,044 | $ 21,690 | |
| 6 | 0.7462 | $ 10,267 | $ 7,661 | $ 29,351 | |
| Discounted payback period | = | 2+(3670/8869) | |||
| = | 2.41 Years | ||||