Financial Management
Individual Assignment 1
Submission date: June 15, 2020
Using the following e-mail address: [email protected]
Note:
• The answer must be submitted in Microsoft word format
• Submission before or after June 15 is not acceptable
• You must have your on say on the analysis (case 1) and capital budgeting
techniques (case 2).
Case 1
Note: Refer chapter 2
Case 2
Briarcliff Stove Company is considering a new product line to supplement its range line. It is
anticipated that the new product line will involve cash investment of $700,000 at time 0
and $1.0 million in year 1. After-tax cash inflows of $250,000 are expected in year 2,
$300,000 in year 3, $350,000 in year 4, and $400,000 each year thereafter through
year 10. Though the product line might be viable after year 10, the company prefers to be
conservative and end all calculations at that time.
a) If the required rate of return is 15 percent, what is the net present value of the
project? Is it acceptable?
b) What is its internal rate of return?
c) What would be the case if the required rate of return was 10 percent?
d) What is the project’s payback period?
e) Comment on the alternative methods
Note: Refer chapter 4