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What Makes for a Good Investment Rule?
1. Recognize the time value of money2. Should rely solely on expected future cash
flows and the opportunity cost of capital-Manager discretion & accounting numbers, are easy to manipulate
3. Want to be able to rank projects, and evaluate portfolios of projects
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Payback Period
Definition: The number of years before the project’s cumulative future cash flows equal the initial investment.How long does it take the project’s to pay for itself?
Decision rule: Accept projects whose payback period is less than a manager determined cut-off
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Payback Example
Assume Payback cut-off is 1 year Which project do we take
Project Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 PB NPV @
10%
A -10 10 0
Cum. CF
B -10 0 15
Cum. CF
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The Payback Period Method Disadvantages:
1. Biased against long-term projects Ignores cash flows after the payback period
2. Requires an arbitrary acceptance criteria
3. Ignores the time value of money A “Good” project may destroy value
Advantages:
1. Easy to understand
2. Biased toward liquidity
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The Discounted Payback Period
Cash flows are discounted before payback period is calculatedEffectively pick positively NPV project
Very conservative → only very valuable projects accepted
STILL ignores cash flows after the payback period
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Average Accounting Return
Decision Rule: If the calculated value is above a benchmark (Ex. the firm’s current return on book or the industry average) accept the project.
Fatally Flawed because:
Investment of ValueBook Average
IncomeNet AverageAAR
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Book Depreciation
This type of depreciation is used to calculate a company’s Net Income
Straight line Depreciation: (Investment – Salvage Value) / Expected life
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AAR Example
A project has net income of $1,200, and $1,600 a year over its 2-year life. The initial cost of the project is $5,000, which will be depreciated using straight-line depreciation to a book value of zero over the life of the project. What is the AAR for this project?
Hint: What is the yearly Depreciation? (Investment – Salvage)/Expected Life
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AAR example A project has net income of $1,200, and $1,600 a year over its 2-year life. The
initial cost of the project is $5,000, which will be depreciated using straight-line depreciation to a book value of zero over the life of the project. What is the AAR for this project?
AAR =
0 1 2 Ave
NI
BV
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Average Accounting Return Disadvantages:
1. Uses accounting numbers instead of cash flows
2. Ignores the time value of money
3. The benchmark is arbitrary. Advantages:
1. The accounting information is easy to obtain
2. Easy to calculate
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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Definition: It is the discount rate that makes a project’s NPV equal 0.
Decision Rule: Accept all projects with IRR’s greater than the opportunity cost of capital.
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IRR’s Underlying Assumptions
All intermediate cash flows can be reinvested at the IRRIs this reasonable?
That short-term interest rates are equal to long-term interest ratesDoes not address which to use if they are not equal
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IRR Notes To find the IRR of a project lasting t years, solve
the following equation:C0+C1/(1+IRR)+C2/(1+IRR)2+….+Ct/(1+IRR)t=0
NPV > 0 implies that IRR > Op CostIRR > Op Cost DOES NOT IMPLY that NPV > 0
IRR assumes that causality goes both ways
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IRR & NPV Investment Example A firm has a project that requires an initial
investment of $10m. In the first year, it will return $12m, what is the IRR?
If r=10% do we accept the project based on IRR and NPV?
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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Disadvantages:1. No distinction between investing and borrowing2. May have multiple IRR’s, or no IRR 3. Problems with mutually exclusive investments4. Scale Problem5. Timing Problem
Advantages:1. Easy to understand and communicate
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Loan Example
According to IRR which project do we pick?
C0 C1 IRR NPV @ 10%
Project A -10 20 100%
Project B 10 -20 100%
Multiple IRR If cash flows switch signs more than once then there exists
multiple IRR’s There will be as many IRRs as there are sign changes Which IRR do we use?
$200 $800
-$200
- $800
($100.00)
($50.00)
$0.00
$50.00
$100.00
-50% 0% 50% 100% 150% 200%Discount rate
NP
V
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Mutually Exclusive Projects Choosing between projects
RANK all alternatives, and select highest IRR IRR ignore the amount of wealth generated
Which project should we take according to IRR?
Which project do investors prefer?
C0 C1 IRR NPV @ 10%
Project A -100 150 50% 36.36
Project B -75 120 50% 34.09
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Resource constraint The firm has $100 to invest, what should it buy?
IRR: NPV:
Project C0 C0 C0 IRR NPV 10%
A -100 300 50 216% $210
B -50 50 200 156% $160
C -50 50 150 130% $120
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Verdict on IRR
Gives the same result as NPV if:Flat term structureConventional cash flowsIndependent projects
Otherwise IRR can lead to BAD decisions
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The Profitability Index (PI)
Minimum Acceptance Criteria: Accept if PI > 1
Ranking Criteria: Select alternative with highest PI
Investment Initial
FlowsCash Future of PV TotalPI
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Selection Example
Which projects do we take?
Projects C0 C1 C2 NPV @ 10% PI
A -100 300 50 214
B -50 50 200 161
C -50 50 150 119
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The Profitability Index Disadvantages:
1. Problems when there are additional constraintsUse linear or integer programming
Advantages:1. When funds limited (Capital Rationing),
provides better rankings than NPV
2. Easy to understand and communicate
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The Net Present Value (NPV) Rule
Net Present Value (NPV) =
Total PV of future CF’s + Initial Investment Estimating NPV:
1. Estimate future cash flows: how much? and when?
2. Estimate discount rate
3. Estimate initial costs
Minimum Acceptance Criteria: Accept if NPV > 0 Ranking Criteria: Choose the highest NPV
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Why We Love NPV
NPV recognizes the time value of money NPV depends only on future cash flows and the
opportunity cost of capital Present value, can be added up, thus allowing us to
evaluate “packages of projects” or a single project Accepting positive NPV projects, increases wealth
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Capital Budgeting in Practice
Varies by industry The most frequently used technique for large
corporations are: IRR or NPVHowever, many companies also consider payback
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Example of Investment Rules
Compute the Payback Period, NPV, and PI for the following two projects. Assume the required return is 10%.
Year Project A Project B
0 -$200 -$150
1 $200 $50
2 $800 $100
3 -$800 $150
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Summary – Discounted Cash Flow Net present value
Accept the project if the NPV is positive Has no serious problems Yields the best decision
Internal rate of return Take the project if the IRR is greater than the required return Same decision as NPV with conventional cash flows IRR is unreliable with non-conventional cash flows or mutually
exclusive projects Profitability Index
Take investment if PI > 1 Cannot be used to rank mutually exclusive projects Should be used to rank projects in the presence of capital rationing
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Summary – Payback Criteria Payback period
Length of time until initial investment is recovered Take the project if it pays back in some specified period Does not account for time value of money, and there is an
arbitrary cutoff period
Discounted payback period Length of time until initial investment is recovered on a
discounted basis Take the project if it pays back in some specified period There is an arbitrary cutoff period
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Summary – Accounting Criterion
Average Accounting ReturnMeasure of accounting profit relative to book
valueSimilar to return on assets measureTake the investment if the AAR exceeds some
specified return levelSerious problems and should not be used
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Quick Quiz Consider an investment that costs $100,000 and has a
cash inflow of $25,000 every year for 5 years. The required return is 9%, and payback cutoff is 4 years. What is the payback period? What is the discounted payback period? What is the NPV? What is the IRR? Should we accept the project?
What method should be the primary decision rule? When is the IRR rule unreliable?