Calculate the proposed projects internal rate of return

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- your understanding of the problem;
- Choice of method for solving the problem;
- Application of techniques.

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS.

PART A

Question 1

a. Your neighbor, knowing you are studying finance, asks you ‘what is this idea of probabilities and what does it tell me?' Provide an answer for your neighbor.

b. The neighbor then says ‘OK, I know understand probabilities, but what really confuses me is the idea of expected values and standard deviations. What do they mean?' Provide an answer explaining what they are telling the user.

Question 2

Currently Holistic PLC dividends are growing by 10% pa and this is expected to continue for another two years. After that time they are expected to grow by 8% pa for the next two years, and then by 6% every year. Next year's dividend is expected to be $0.80, and the appropriate discount rate is 12%. If you have $20,700 to invest, how many shares can you buy in Holistic PLC?

Question 3

Three years ago, Batista Ltd. issued 10 year $1,000 bonds with a 7% coupon rate paid semiannually, at par value. The market currently requires a 9% yield.

i. What was the price of the bond at issue?
ii. What is the current price of the bond?
iii. If the market yield falls to 6% in two years' time, what will the bond's price be at that Time?
iv. Explain your results in (i) - (iii)

Question 4

Comment on the following statements:

i. 'If after all your calculations you tell me that there is a high probability that the share's price will vary between $4.50 and $9.60, I can make a fortune by buying the share at $4.50 and selling when it reaches $9.60.

ii. 'I don't care how high the price may go, all that worries me is whether or not I will make a loss.

iii. 'Expected return and standard deviation are of no interest to me, all I want to know is what my investment will be worth one year from now.

Part B CASE STUDY QUESTION

This case is intended to be an introduction to the various methods used in capital budgeting and looks at some of the decisions that may have to be made when evaluating projects. It is also designed to develop skills in using spreadsheets. You should set up a spreadsheet at the start to help analyse the problems. When using a spreadsheet, any tables that you wish to present to the reader should be embedded into a Word document as an ordinary table.

Wang Systems

Although he was hired as a financial analyst after completing his business degree, David Ong's first assignment at Wang Systems was with the firm's marketing department. Historically, the major focus of David's sales effort was on demonstrating the technological superiority of the firm's product line. However, many of Wang's traditional customers have embarked on costcutting programs in recent years, and as a result, Wang's marketing director asked David's boss, the Chief Financial Officer, to lend David to marketing to help them develop some analytical procedures for the sales force to use that will demonstrate the financial benefits of buying Wang's products.

Wang Systems manufactures fluid control systems that are used in a wide variety of applications, including sewage treatment systems, petroleum refining, and pipeline transmission. The complete systems include sophisticated pumps, sensors, and control units that continuously monitor the flow rate and the pressure along a line, and automatically adjust the pump to meet preset pressure specifications. Most of Wang's systems are made up of standard components, and most complete systems are priced from $50,000 to $100,000. Because of the highly technical nature of the products, the majority of Wang's sales force have backgrounds in engineering.

As he began to think about his assignment, David quickly came to the conclusion that the best way to 'sell' a system to a cost-conscious customer would be to conduct a capital budgeting analysis which would demonstrate the system's cost effectiveness. Further, he concluded that the best way to begin was with an analysis for one of Wang's actual customers.

From discussions with the firm's sales people, David decided that a proposed sale to Selangor River Council (SRC) was perfect to use as an illustration. SRC is considering the purchase of one of Wang's standard fluid control systems which costs $80,000 including taxes and delivery. It would cost SRC another $5,000 to install the equipment, and this expense would be added to the invoice price of the equipment to determine the depreciable basis of the system. For taxation purposes the system can be depreciated over 6 years, using the following schedule, but has an economic life of 8 years and it will be used for that period. After 8 years, the system will probably be obsolete, so it will have a zero salvage value at that time. Current depreciation allowances are:

Year 1: 20% Year 2: 32% Year 3: 19%
Year 4: 12% Year 5: 11% Year 6: 6%

This system would replace a control system which has been used for about 20 years and which has been fully depreciated. The costs for removing the current system are about equal to its scrap value, so its current net market value is zero.

The advantages of the new system are that (i) it would be more energy efficient, (ii) it would reduce waste, because the chemical processes could be more carefully controlled, and (iii) it would require less human monitoring and maintenance. In total, the new system would save SRC $25,000 annually in before-tax operating costs. For capital budgeting, SRC uses a 10% cost of capital, and the applicable tax rate is 40%.

Mary Seong, Wang's marketing manager, gave David a free hand in structuring the analysis. Now put yourself in David's position and develop a capital budgeting analysis for the fluid control systems. As you go through the analysis, keep in mind that the purpose of the analysis is to help Wang's sales representatives sell equipment to other nonfinancial people, so the analysis must be as clear as possible, yet technically correct. In other words, the analysis must not only be right, it must also be understandable to decision makers, and the presenter - David, in this case - must be able to answer all questions, ranging from the performance characteristics of the equipment to the assumptions underlying the capital budgeting decision criteria.

Question 1

What is the project's net present value (NPV)? Explain the economic rationale behind the NPV. Could the NPV of this particular project be different for SRC than for one of Wang's other potential customers? Explain.

Question 2

Calculate the proposed project's internal rate of return (IRR). Explain the rationale for using the IRR to evaluate capital investment projects. Could the IRR for this project be different for SRC than for another customer? Explain.

Question 3

Suppose one of SRC executives uses the payback method as a primary capital budgeting decision tool and wants some payback information.

a. What is the project's payback period?
b. What is the rationale behind the use of payback period as a project evaluation tool?
c. What deficiencies does payback have as a capital budgeting decision method?
d. Does payback provide any useful information regarding capital budgeting decisions?

Question 4

Under what conditions do NPV, IRR, and PI all lead to the same accept/reject decision? When can conflicts occur? If a conflict arises, which method should be used, and why?

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