What kinds of real investment projects have cash flows

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Investment Detective Instructions

a. The text of the Investment Detective Case is in your Harvard pack. There isn't a lot of info there besides the cash flow forecasts for the investment projects (which are also recreated in the template). However there is a bit of contextual info.

b. The discount rate you should use for your NPV computations is 10%.

c. Rank the projects from 1-8 (with 1 being the best). If you think your ranking need some explanation, feel free to provide it in the spreadsheet.

The essence of capital budgeting and resource allocation is a search for good investments in which to place the firm's capital. The process can be simple when viewed in purely mechanical terms, but a number of subtle issues can obscure the best investment choices. The capital-budgeting analyst, therefore, is necessarily a detective who must winnow bad evidence from good. Much of the challenge is in knowing what quantitative analysis to generate in the first place.

Suppose you are a new capital-budgeting analyst for a company considering investments in the eight projects listed in Exhibit 1. The chief financial officer of your company has asked you to rank the projects and recommend the "four best" that the company should accept.

In this assignment, only the quantitative considerations are relevant. No other project characteristics are deciding factors in the selection, except that management has determined that projects 7 and 8 are mutually exclusive.

All the projects require the same initial investment, $2 million. Moreover, all are believed to be of the same risk class. The firm's weighted average cost of capital has never been estimated. In the past, analysts have simply assumed that 10% was an appropriate discount rate (although certain officers of the company have recently asserted that the discount rate should be much higher).

To stimulate your analysis, consider the following questions:

1. Can you rank the projects simply by inspecting the cash flows?

2. What criteria might you use to rank the projects? Which quantitative ranking methods are better? Why?

3. What is the ranking you found by using quantitative methods? Does this ranking differ from the ranking obtained by simple inspection of the cash flows?

4. What kinds of real investment projects have cash flows similar to those in Exhibit 1?

Instructions

1. Compute NPV and IRR for each project.

2. Rank the projects from 1 to 8 with 1 being the best project

3. Use the shaded green cells below for your computations and rankings

4. If necessary or desired you can provide further computations or explanation under the rankings.

Discount Rate 10.00%

Exhibit 1

The Investment Detective

Project's Free Cash Flows(dollars in thousands)

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
0	(2000)	(2000)	(2000)	(2000)	(2000)	(2000)	(2000)	(2000)
1	330	1666		160	280	2200	1200	(350)
2	330	334		200	280		900	(60)
3	330	165		350	280		300	60
4	330			395	280		90	350
5	330			432	280		70	700
6	330			440	280			1200
7	330			442	280			2250
8	1000			444	280
9				446	280
10				448	280
11				450	280
12				451	280
13				451	280
14				452	280
15			10000	(2000)	280

Sum of Cash Inflows	3310	2165	10000	3561	4200	2200	2560	4150
Excess of Cash Inflow over Initial Investment	1310	165	8000	1561	2200	200	560	2150

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