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Instructor Question A:
Project selection criteria are typically identified as financial and nonfinancial. What are the advantages and disadvantages of financial selection methods versus nonfinancial selection methods? List some examples of these two types of project selection methods and identify them as financial or nonfinancial.
Answer: When there is a higher certainty as to what would be estimates of future cash flow financial selection methods are the most preferred in these cases. One major disadvantage of financial criteria is that it fails to include projects where financial returns are not possible to measure or other factors are important for selection or rejection of projects. They also do not always reflect strategic importance. An example of it would be cutting cost through reducing training or different perks. Or starting of a new branch.
Non financial criteria are helpful to assess whether a potentially profitable project that is beyond the realm of their core business is suitable or not. Companies need to reject these projects to focus on their core competencies. But this criteria also has the drawback that they might not always refect the strategic importance and also financial inputs would be absent. To develop core technologies or to capture larger market share can be considered as some it’s examples.
Instructor Question B:
The text indicates that when projects are implemented without a strong connection to the strategic plan serious
The first project proposal is Match My Doll Clothing line expansion consisted of expanding matching doll and child’s clothing and accessories. The second project proposal is Design Your Own Doll by creating customizable “one of a kind” doll features through the company’s website. The project selection criteria would base on quantitative and qualitative analysis. The quantitative analysis would base on the evaluation of discounting cash flow forecasts to determining the Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and the Payback period of each proposed project. The qualitative analysis would include the potential project value of the company’s overall strategy, innovation, key project risks, and the project interdependencies to the whole company.
Evaluating the risks, calculating the probability of success, and factoring in the projected profit from sales will provide a clearer NPV to be compared with other projects in the
Hypothetical Answer: It would be a huge loss if the new projects undertaken would not yield a good rate of return. The rate of return on invested capital is the most important thing and maximizing shareholder value is the most important thing. Would you help in this decision making process so I do not take on risky
We focus on free cash flows rather than accounting profits because these are the flows that the firm receives and can reinvest. Only by examining cash flows are we able to correctly analyze the timing of the benefit or cost. Also, we are only interested in these cash flows on an after tax basis as only those flows are available to the shareholder. In addition, it is only the incremental cash flows that interest us, because, looking at the project from the point of the company as a whole, the incremental cash flows are the marginal benefits from the project and, as such, are the increased value to the firm from accepting the project.
A) I believe the best cost-benefit analysis technique is the “time value of money” technique. Of course it is beneficial for a project manager to know the benefits of the project as well as the overall cost of the project, but determining if the time value of money is worth the effort is another factor the manager must consider. The time value of money is the comparing the expected cost of the project compared the expected returns/benefits of the project. If the costs both present and future outweigh the benefits, the project is probably not worth the time spent.
The primary purpose of the scorecard is to help measure the financial perspective of the project. This will help measure reflecting financial performance, for example number of debtors, cash flow or return on investment, Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). Several different procedures are available to analyze potential business investments. First, the most important concept of evaluating these investments is the NPV. NPV of a project can be viewed as the difference between an investment 's market value and the cost of that investment. It is only a good investment if it makes money for the company, so a positive NPV will be needed. The projects can be ranked
While the method of this surveillance may use the BRFSS, there can be many more other methods that can be used. In evaluating a financial project, majority of the times the methods used during the evaluations will be quantitative, in order to prove financial gain (Makarova & Sokolva, 2014). The same quantitative method can also be used in two different ways within this project.
As the November Meeting approaches, CFO Doug Scovanner is faced with the problem of choosing which of the five controversial projects available to accept. Our task is to assume this role and evaluate each of the projects based upon two major criteria. The first is determining the firm’s financial motives by quantifying the projected value added to the firm and the risk associated with each project. When determining to accept or reject projects based upon adding value, the most helpful instruments we have are Net Present Value (NPV) and the
In the given case, there are five projects including Whalen Court, Gopher Place, Stadium Remodel, Goldie’s Square and The Barn. All of these projects were under consideration for the purpose of implementation. Each of the projects has its own cost and benefits on the performance of Target Corporation. The process of choosing one of the projects which has high Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return is very important for the company as capital investment has a significant impact on the short term and long term profitability of the company. As a result, the ultimate objective of the case is to carry out an analysis which might help in ranking the projects so that the company would come up with the decision for acceptance and rejection of the
There are several advantages with this method : like the ARR it is very simple to calculate and easy to understand concept reducing the evaluation to a simple number of years; it has the advantage of concentrating on cash flows, which are more objective than profit ; it can be very useful for managers to make quick evaluation of projects with small investment and also it can be significant for companies with liquidity problems ( limited cash flow) that need to recover their money as quickly as possible. In addition, it is useful as screening tool when evaluating proposal, if a project pass the initial payback, then it gets further detailed analysis that use time value of money and
The four measures were net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), the payback period and increases in earnings per share (EPS). Other strategic factors must be considered that are not reflected in the financial tests. James Fawn and his ICG analyst team must decide which project is the best value for the short-term and the long-term. Utilizing these financial hurdles and contemplating other strategic factors, Victoria Chemicals will choose the project that will give the firm the most value.
In fully investigating all of our calculations we are fully invested in using the Net Present Value figures we calculated as a means of ranking the eight projects. In doing so we found reasons in which why the Net Present Value was our benchmark for ranking the projects and why we did not use the Payback Method. The Payback Method ignores the time value of money, requires and arbitrary cutoff point, ignores cash flows beyond the cutoff date, and is biased against long-term projects, such as research and development and new projects. When comparing the Average Accounting Return Method to the Net Present Value method we found that the Average Accounting Return Method is a worse option than using the Payback Method. The Average Accounting Return Method is not a true rate of return and the time value of money is ignored, it uses an arbitrary benchmark cutoff rate, and is based on accounting net income and book values, not cash flows and market values. Plain and simply put, the Net Present Value method is the best criterion to use when ranking these eight
There are several traditional methods that can be used in appraising investment decisions. For instance, the net present value method (NPV) which entails estimating the costs and revenues of a project and discounting these figures to get their present values. Projects with the biggest positive net present value are the ones chosen as they represent the best stream of benefits of investing in the project over and above recovering the cost of initiating the projects. The discount rate is another method which is similar to the net present value method but reflects more on the time preference. This approach may focus on the opportunity cost of
The process of deciding and which project should be priority based on business requirements and goals could be a very difficult decision. Since, every project in the company holds importance but because there is a budget which is funded the departments have to select those project priorities to maximize their budgets and fulfill business goals
Project appraisal techniques are used to evaluate possible investment opportunities and to determine which of these opportunities will generate the best return to the firm’s shareholders. Therefore, it is vital for the firm if they wish to continue receiving funds from shareholders to employ the best techniques available when analysing which investment opportunities will give the best return. There are two types of project appraisal techniques: non-discounted cash flows and discounted cash flows. The Net Present Value and internal rate of return, examples of discounted cash flows, are in use in many large corporations and regarded as more effective than the traditional techniques of payback and accounting rate of return. In this paper, I