In: Finance
8. Cash flow patterns and the modified rate of return calculation
Blue Elk Manufacturing is analyzing a project with the following cash flows:
|
Year |
Cash Flow |
|---|---|
| 0 | -$1,603,000 |
| 1 | $325,000 |
| 2 | $450,000 |
| 3 | $540,000 |
| 4 | $360,000 |
This project has_____________[normal/non-normal] cash flows.
Blue Elk Manufacturing’s WACC is 9.00%. Calculate this project’s modified internal rate of return (MIRR).
A: 2.40%
B: 9.00%
C: 4.40%
D: 8.99%
Blue Elk Manufacturing’s managers select projects based only on the MIRR criterion. Should Blue Elk Manufacturing’s managers accept this independent project?
*Yes
*No
| Project | |||||
| Combination approach | |||||
| All negative cash flows are discounted back to the present and all positive cash flows are compounded out to the end of the project’s life | |||||
| Thus year 4 modified cash flow=(420884.43)+(534645)+(588600)+(360000) | |||||
| =1904129.43 | |||||
| Thus year 0 modified cash flow=-1603000 | |||||
| =-1603000 | |||||
| Discount rate | 0.09 | ||||
| Year | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Cash flow stream | -1603000 | 325000 | 450000 | 540000 | 360000 |
| Discount factor | 1 | 1.09 | 1.1881 | 1.295029 | 1.4115816 |
| Compound factor | 1 | 1.295029 | 1.1881 | 1.09 | 1 |
| Discounted cash flows | -1603000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Compounded cash flows | -6.2383E-07 | 420884.4 | 534645 | 588600 | 360000 |
| Modified cash flow | -1603000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1904129.4 |
| Discounting factor (using MIRR) | 1 | 1.043977 | 1.089887 | 1.137816 | 1.1878537 |
| Discounted cash flows | -1603000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603000 |
| NPV = Sum of discounted cash flows | |||||
| NPV= | 4.91273E-08 | ||||
| MIRR is the rate at which NPV = 0 | |||||
| MIRR= | 4.40% | ||||
| Where | |||||
| Discounting factor = | (1 + discount rate)^(Corresponding period in years) | ||||
| Discounted Cashflow= | Cash flow stream/discounting factor | ||||
| Compounding factor = | (1 + reinvestment rate)^(time of last CF-Corresponding period in years) | ||||
Reject as MIRR is less than WACC