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Solution of A-B & C-D

1. Solution of A-B & C-D

So let's start out first of all with project A, relatively straightforward here. Remember a very, very common mistake in this case would be to start the NPV function like this. Remember, we don't want a discount, what's in year zero at all, we wanna start our discounting in year one. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna say, we're just gonna grab that cash flow from your zero plus NPV, open the bracket, the rate is here, 15%, comma and now we wanna start with year one all the way to Year 10, close the bracket, and hit Enter. Now, that we've done that calculation, let's save some time, just do a simple copy and a paste down here. We're gonna tap F2 to assure that it's working, it looks perfect, and we're done. So based on just this simple metric here, we know that this negative NPV would destroy value for the company, but this positive one would create value, so the company would only advance with project B and not project A. Let's hop over to tab C D now and take a look at the solution here. All right, let's start by putting in a very similar formula here for NPV, equals, its negative cash flow, we're gonna say plus NPV, open the bracket, the rate is here, 15, let's grab the cash flows from year one all the way to the end, close the bracket and hit Enter. Now for the IRR, equals IRR, open the bracket, we're just gonna grab all of the cash flows like this and hit Enter. And now for the profitability, index equals open bracket the NPV, and we wanna add the investments, so we're gonna subtract this negative cash flow here, close the bracket divided by negative, this figure here, and we're gonna hit Enter. Now to save some time, let's take these three formulas, copy them and we're gonna paste them down here, and we have all the check boxes over here, so now let's analyze the results. So let's remember up here that we said that the company only has sufficient capital to invest in one project, so which one to choose? Well, we can see here that the NPVs are very, very close, almost equal in fact. So we wanna look to the profitability index, we can see that both are above one, but this one is substantially higher, so we would definitely be choosing project C here. Well done.

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