Consider the following two investments:
Project
X Project
Y
Initial
investment $100,000 $100,000
Year
1 cash
inflow $50,000 $80,000
Year
2 cash
inflow $40,000 $28,000
Year
3 cash
inflow $30,000 $18,000
Ignore time value of money, which project has the shortest
payback period?
a. project Y b. project x