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Is this a good investment for Candy’s business? Why or why not?
Rate of Return = Average profit / Average investment
Payback period = Total Investment / (Annual Depreciation + Annual Profit).
Based on the calculation, is this a good investment? Why or why not?
BEP in dollars = Fixed Costs/Profit as percentage of sales
BEP in units = Fixed costs/profit per unit
Rate of return is the percentage of return earned on the investment made by the company. Higher the rate of return, the better the investment | ||||||||||||
Rate of return | Average profit/Average investment | |||||||||||
Rate of return | 30000/250000 | |||||||||||
Rate of return | 12.00% | |||||||||||
The rate of return is 12%. | ||||||||||||
Candy should invest in the project as rate of return is 12%. | ||||||||||||
Alternatively, candy should compare the rate of return with the cost of capital or her expected return so as as to make better decision to invest in the investment | ||||||||||||
Payback period is the number of years it takes for the project to recover the cash invested. | ||||||||||||
Payback period | Total investment/(Annual depreciation + Annual profit) | |||||||||||
Payback period | 250000/(30000+25000) | |||||||||||
Payback period | 4.55 | yrs | ||||||||||
The payback period is 4.55 years | ||||||||||||
Annual depreciation | (250000/10) | 25000 | ||||||||||
Break even point is where the company would make no profit nor loss | ||||||||||||
BEP in dollars | Fixed costs/Profit as percentage of sales | |||||||||||
BEP in dollars | 100000/60% | |||||||||||
BEP in dollars | $166,666.67 | |||||||||||
The business must generate revenue of $166,666.67 | ||||||||||||