Estimating The Cash Flow Generated By 1 Invested In A Project The Profitability Index Pi Is A Capital Budgeting Tool 1 (16.96 KiB) Viewed 26 times
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Estimating the cash flow generated by $1 invested in a project The profitability Index (PI) is a capital budgeting tool that is defined as the present value of a project's cash inflows divided by the absolute value of its initial cash outflow. Consider this case: Happy Dog Soap Company is considering investing $2,500,000 in a project that is expected to generate the following net cash flows: Year Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Cash Flow $275,000 $450,000 $425,000 $425,000 Year 4
Happy Dog Soap Company uses a WACC of 9% when evaluating proposed capital budgeting projects. Based on these cash flows, determine this project's PI (rounded to four decimal places) 0.5041 0.5293 0.4789 0.4537 Happy Dog Soap Company's decision to accept or reject this project is independent of its decisions on other projects. Based on the project's PI, the the project. firm should By comparison, the NPV of this project is In the project because the project On the basis of this evaluation criterion, Happy Dog Soap Company should Increase the firm's value A project with a negative NPV will have a PI that is when it has a PI of 1.0, it will have an NPV
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