Question

You are a consulting firm intern and your job is to help a client choose investment projects. Your client, RealEstate, is a young and growing commercial and residential real estate firm. After reading through all the related information of those projects, you have compiled the following cash flow projections:
Col1 CF0 CF1 CF2 CF3
Col2 project 1 100 50 50 50
Col3 project 2 -80 40 45 50
Col4 project 3 -70 30 40 50
Col5 project 4 -60 30 40 60
Col6 project 5 -50 25 30 70

CF0 denotes the initial investment. CF1 is the cash flow at the end of the first year. CF2 is the cash flow at the end of the second year, and so on. The units are millions of dollars.

If RealEstate accepts projects with payback periods of 2 years or less, which project should you reject?

(a)Project 1
(b)Project 2
(c)Project 3
(d)Project 4
(e)Project 5
(f)None

Answer 1

Answer:

(f)None

Explanation:

Pay back period is the no of years in which cost of investment is recovered in the form of cash flow.

Project with cash back period of two years is acceptable .

Project 1

initial outlay of fund = 100 million dollar

cash flow in first two years = 50+50 = 100 million dollar

so it is acceptable because it recovers the project cost in first two years .

Project 2

initial outlay of fund = 80 million dollar

cash flow in first two years = 40+45 = 95

so it is acceptable because it recovers the project cost in first two years .

Project 3

initial outlay of fund = 70 million dollar

cash flow in first two years = 30+40 = 70

so it is acceptable because it recovers the project cost in first two years .

Project 4

initial outlay of fund = 60 million dollar

cash flow in first two years = 30+40 = 70

so it is acceptable because it recovers the project cost in first two years .

Project 5

initial outlay of fund = 50 million dollar

cash flow in first two years = 30+25 = 55

so it is acceptable because it recovers the project cost in first two years .

So none will be rejected