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You are a consultant to a firm evaluating an expansion of its current business.

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Question

You are a consultant to a firm evaluating an expansion of its current business. The cash-flow forecasts (in millions of dollars) for the project are as follows:

On the basis of the behavior of the firm’s stock, you believe that the beta of the firm is 1.46. Assume that the rate of return available on risk-free investments is 4% and that the expected rate of return on the market portfolio is 13%.

What is the project IRR? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

What is the cost of capital for the project? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

You are a consultant to a firm evaluating an expansion of its current business. The cash-flow forecasts (in millions of dollars) for the project are as follows:

Explanation / Answer

First of all we will calculate coast of capital as follow

Cost of Capital

= rate of return of risk-free investments + beta (market portfolit - risk-free rate)

= 4% + 1.46 ( 13%-4%)
=4% +13.14%

=17.14%

Now we will calculate NPV as follow

NPV of the project is -12.7591

NOw we will calculate IRR of the project as follow

IRR =(100) +19(1+r)+19(1+r)2+19(1+r)3+19(1+r)4+19(1+r)5+19(1+r)6+19(1+r)7+19(1+r)8+19(1+r)9+19(1+r)10

By solving above equation by trial and error method we have found IRR =

=13.77%

So IRR =13.77%

NO

Company should reject the project as IRR of the project is less then Required Return of the project

Year CF PV Factor
@16.4% PV 0 -100 1 -100 1 19 0.85178876 16.18399 2 19 0.72554409 13.78534 3 19 0.61801029 11.7422 4 19 0.52641422 10.00187 5 19 0.44839371 8.519481 6 19 0.38193672 7.256798 7 19 0.32532941 6.181259 8 19 0.27711193 5.265127 9 19 0.23604083 4.484776 10 19 0.20105692 3.820082 -12.7591