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Payback Period
The payback period is the amount of time
required for the firm to recover its initial
investment
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Computational simplicity
Easy to understand
Focus on cash flow
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investment
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If
Average annual
depreciation
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NPV
Focuses
Makes
50%
money
Can properly account for risk differences between
projects
IRR
Discount
rate
Doesnt
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NPV
50%
IRR
Discount
rate
If
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Advantages and
Disadvantages of IRR
Advantages
Properly
versus borrowing?
IRRs
No real solutions
Multiple
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Multiple IRRs
NPV ($)
IRR
NPV>0
incremental project
NPV>0
NPV<0
NPV<0
Cash
Discount
rate
IRR
When project cash flows have multiple sign changes, there can be
multiple IRRs
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Profitability Index
Calculated by dividing the PV of a projects cash
inflows by the PV of its outflows
When
The
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Capital Rationing
profitability index (PI) is a close
cousin of the NPV approach, but it
suffers from the same scale problem as
the IRR approach.
The PI approach is most useful in capital
rationing situations.
The
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