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among mutually exclusive investments???Pound Industries is attempting to select the best of three mutually exclusive projects. The initial investment and? after-tax cash inflows associated with these projects are shown in the following table.
Cash flows |
Project A |
Project B |
Project C |
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Initial investment? (CF) |
?$60 comma 00060,000 |
?$100 comma 000100,000 |
?$100 comma 000100,000 |
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Cash
inflows? (CF),
tequals=1 to 5 |
?$20 comma 00020,000 |
?$31 comma 00031,000 |
?$31 comma 50031,500 |
a.??Calculate the payback period for each project.
b.??Calculate the net present value? (NPV) of each? project, assuming that the firm has a cost of capital equal to
1212?%.
c.??Calculate the internal rate of return? (IRR) for each project.
d.??
Indicate
which project you would recommend.a.??The payback period of project A is
nothing
years.???(Round to two decimal? places.)The payback period of project B is
nothing
years.???(Round to two decimal? places.)The payback period of project C is
nothing
years.???(Round to two decimal? places.)b.??The NPV of project A is
?$nothing.
?(Round to the nearest? cent.)The NPV of project B is
?$nothing.
?(Round to the nearest? cent.)The NPV of project C is
?$nothing.
?(Round to the nearest? cent.)c.??The IRR of project A is
nothing?%.
?(Round to two decimal? places.)The IRR of project B is
nothing?%.
?(Round to two decimal? places.)The IRR of project C is
nothing?%.
?(Round to two decimal? places.)
d.??Which project would you? recommend????(Select the best answer? below.)
A.
Project Upper CProject C
B.
Project Upper BProject B
C.
Project Upper AProject A