General Foods (GF) is in the process of evaluating Super as a new profit-increasing project for its business. Payback and Return on Funds Employed (ROFE) are the decision rules used currently by GF for project decisions. While these rules are helpful, they are flawed and do not take into account the time value of money when evaluating cash flows. Net present value is a more suited tool to evaluate projects because it takes into account discounting of future cash flows, evaluates liquidity through discount, selects the scenario that maximizes shareholder wealth, and considers all relevant incremental cash flows. Certain cash flows and costs for Super were either included or not in the financial worksheets presented to management. Flaws …show more content…
In the case of Super, Sanberg argues that other costs outside of these incremental cash flows need to be considered to properly evaluate the project. These included additional overhead costs and the allocation of equipment charges due to the shared use of the Jell-O agglomerator for Super production. Both of these additions are irrelevant to the evaluation of Super. The overhead charges were agreed to by management and whether or not the project is accepted or rejected will be the same in both cases. Management recognized a need to increase sales force due to changing complexity and growth in the market, but this would not change regardless of project decision. Allocation of equipment costs from the Jell-O agglomerator are also irrelevant because while Super benefits from the equipment already being available, it was purchased for Jell-O. It is not stated what additional projects could run on the agglomerator besides Super and Jell-O, so there is not an opportunity loss of other products not running on this equipment to take into …show more content…
An amount of $294,760 was calculated, signaling that the project should be accepted. A sensitivity analysis was then performed which examined the effect of discount rate, tax rate, revenue growth or decline, and fluctuation in erosion cost on NPV. Revenue was found to have a significant effect on overall NPV. A decline in projected revenue for Super of approximately 3.55% put the project NPV at zero. This equates to a dollar amount of approximately $79,200 in revenue for the first year and a continued decrease in sales for the remaining 10 years of an equal
Fixed costs of $100,000 plus the variable costs of $60,000 will give us $160,000 in total expenses. The gross ticket sales of $660,000 minus the total expenses of $160,000 give us a yearly net income of $500,000. The new lift has an economic life of 20 years and we would like to make 14% on our investment. The NPV factor of 14% at 20 years is 6.6231. By multiplying our net yearly income or our annuity of $500,000 times the NPV factor of 6.6231 we will have a NPV of $3,311,550.
Star Appliance is looking to expand their product line and is considering three different projects: dishwashers, garbage disposals, and trash compactors. We want to determine which project would be worth doing by determining if they will add value to Star. Thus, the project(s) that will add the most value to Star Appliance will be worth pursuing. The current hurdle rate of 10% should be re-evaluated by finding the weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Then by forecasting the cash flows of each project and discounting them by the WACC to find the net present value, or by solving for the internal rate of return, we should be able to see which projects Star should undertake.
Merck's investment valuation Decision tree approach: This approach is suitable for projects that do not have to be funded all at once. The alternatives, probability of payoffs are identified using diagrams which are simple to understand and interpret with brief explanations giving important insights. It identifies managerial flexibility to reevaluate decisions using new information and then either invest additional funds or terminate the project. Results of the decision tree. This analysis shows that the project's NPV is $13.37 million.
Discounted Cash Flow Method takes the forecast free cash flows during forecasted horizon. Then we estimate the cost of capital (weighted average cost of capital) and estimate continuing value (value after forecast horizon). The future value is discounted to the present value. We than add back cash ($13 Million) and non-current assets and deduct total debt. With the information provided several assumptions had to be made to obtain reasonable values (life period of 30-years, Capital expenditures not to exceed $1 million dollars, depreciation to stay constant at $1.15 Million and a discounted rate of 10%). Based on our analysis, the company has a stand-alone value of $51 Million at the end of fiscal year end 1990 with a net present value of cash flows of $33 million that does not include the cash and non-current assets a cash of and non-current assets.
Economic / Financial Analysis Transportation Costs The transportation division asked that the cost of tank cars required for additional throughput should be involved in the initial outlay of the Merseyside's project was ignored by Frank Greystock. Therefore, he was not involved in the analysis of the Merseyside project. Regardless of how departmental budgets are established, best practices in capital budgeting clearly state that all side-effects of a project must be included in cash-flow projections (Schiff, 1988 *2).
Discounted cash flow is a valuation technique that discounts projected cash inflows and outflows to evaluate the potential value of an investment. There are three discounted cash flow methods: Net Present Value (NPV), Profitability Index (PI) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). The net present value discounts all cash inflows and outflows at a minimum rate of return, which is usually the cost of capital. The profitability index refers to the ratio of the present value of cash inflow to the present value of cash outflows. The internal rate of return refers to the interest rate that discounts cash inflow projections to the present to ensure that the present value of cash inflows is equivalent to the present value of cash outflows (Brown, 1992).
Making an investment towards a new project/product/company is hardly a simple process. Numerous factors including costs, benefits, time, and resources need to be taken into account before a decision to pursue a new project should be ventured into. At the end of the day prioritising projects and investing funds into projects that have the most potential towards favourable return on investment should be considered. Investment appraisal should not only be used for projects with a monetary return, it is also pertinent to use the tools where the return may not be easy to quantify such as training or development programs. Investment
It is important to clarify some key assumptions that were made in valuing the properties to this NPV. First, the project yields a high IRR of 73 %, due largely in part to the sale of each building upon lease up. For the cash flow projections, it was assumed that all buildings are sold 18 months after construction completion. Therefore, with the exception of the last building to be sold, Heron Quay, the buildings are sold toward the end of their free-rent periods and no rent is collected.
America is a capitalist society. It should come to a surprise when we live like this daily. We work for profit. We’ll buy either for pleasure or to sell later for profit. It should come to no surprise that our food is made the same way because we are what we eat. We are capitalist that eat a capitalist meal. So we must question our politics. Is our government system to blame for accepting and encouraging monopolies?
The Swedish-Danish Company and milk producer Arla Foods has decided to broaden their distribution outside of Europe and have created two joint-ventures in West Africa, one in Senegal and one in Nigeria.
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Explain why in practise other methods of evaluating investment projects have proved to be more popular with decision-makers than the net present value method. (Please compare at least three (3) methods)
To test the financial feasibility and plan acceptability, there must be information on the magnitude, and share of estimated project cost that are reimbursable. This information can be derived from cost allocation. Also where cost sharing is required in the multipurpose planning process cost allocation can be applied. Cost allocation also provides information necessary for allocating the real expenditures ensuring that the cost account are maintained in line with plan formulation and allocation principles during the subsequent c...
Firstly, in assessing ourselves, we determined that our BATNA associated with $37 million. I comprised the cost of building a new plant ($25 million), loss of profits in 12 months ($12 million) and the cost of 90 day option to buy land ($0.5 million). A non-refundable expense of $10 million on buying the option for the land is considered the sunk cost. The maximum amount of money that our group could spend on this buying intention is $40 million. We decided that our target point would be $16 m...
The Net Present Value (NPV) is a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) technique that relies on the concept of opportunity cost to place a value on cash inflows arising from capital investment, where opportunity cost is the "calculation of what is sacrificed or foregone as a result of a particular decision".