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Subject: NPV/IRR
Category: Business and Money > Finance
Asked by: missmallprincess-ga
List Price: $4.00
Posted: 11 May 2004 14:26 PDT
Expires: 10 Jun 2004 14:26 PDT
Question ID: 344809
The company that I work for believes its latest project, which will
cost $80,000 to install, will generate a perpetual growing stream of
cash flows. Cash flow at the end of this year will be $5,000, and cash
flows in future years are expected to grow indefinitely at an annual
rate of 5 percent.

a. If the discount rate for this project is 10 percent, what is the project NPV?

b. What is the project IRR?

An excel spreadsheet would be great.  Thank you.
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Subject: Re: NPV/IRR
Answered By: wonko-ga on 11 May 2004 14:51 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Regrettably, attaching an Excel spreadsheet is not possible via this
forum.  However, the calculations are very easy to understand, making
a spreadsheet superfluous.

First, we have a perpetuity with an initial payout of $5,000 with an
annual growth rate of 5%.

We know that the present value of such a perpetuity is equal to the
initial payout divided by the quantity (interest rate minus growth
rate).  In this case, this amounts to $5,000 divided by 0.05 or
$100,000.

To calculate the net present value, we subtract the $80,000
installation cost from the present value of the perpetuity.  This
results in a net present value of $20,000.

The internal rate of return is the interest rate that causes the net
present value to equal zero.  So, $5,000/(i-0.05) - $80,000 = 0. 
After performing some algebra, we learn that the internal rate of
return i is 11.25%.  Since the internal rate of return is higher than
the discount rate, we know that the net present value will be
positive, so everything checks out.

References:

Principles of Engineering Economy, eighth edition, Grant, Ireson, &
Leavenworth, John Wiley & Sons, 1990, page 101

Principles of Corporate Finance, fourth edition, Brealey & Myers,
McGraw-Hill Inc., 1991, page 34

Sincerely,

Wonko
missmallprincess-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars

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