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Use the following cash flows to answer:
Year 0 = ($1,550); Year 1 = $850; Year 2 = $900. The firms WACC = 8%.
What is the Profitability Index (PI)?
| a) | 
 0.0056  | 
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| b) | 
 1.01  | 
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| c) | 
 1.51  | 
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| d) | 
 1.13  | 
| Wacc = 8% ; this we can use in calculation of present value of the investment | |||||
| CACULATION OF PRESTN VALUE OF THE INVESTMENT | |||||
| Period | Particulars | Amount | PVF of $ 1 $ 8% | Present Value | |
| 0 | Outflow | $ -1,550.00 | $ 1.000 | $ -1,550.00 | |
| 1 | Inflow | $ 850.00 | $ 0.926 | $ 787.04 | |
| 2 | Inflow | $ 900.00 | $ 0.857 | $ 771.60 | |
| Total | $ 8.64 | ||||
| CACULATION OF PROFITABILITY INDEX OF INVESTMENT | |||||
| Profitability Index = 1 + Net present Value / Initial investment | |||||
| Profitability Index = 1 + | $ 8.64 | "/" By | $ 1,550.00 | ||
| Profitability Index = 1 + | 0.01 | ||||
| Profitability Index = | 1.01 | ||||
| Answer Profitability index = 1.01 | |||||