Chapter 1, Problem 16QA

Consider the case of Blue Hamster Manufacturing Inc.: Last Tuesday, Blue Hamster Manufacturing Inc. lost a portion of its planning and financial data when both its main and its backup servers crashed. The company’s CFO remembers that the internal rate of return (IRR) of Project Lambda is 13.8%, but he can’t recall how much Blue Hamster originally invested in the project nor the project’s net present value (NPV). However, he found a note that detailed the annual net cash flows expected to be generated by Project Lambda. They are: Year Cash Flow Year 1 $2,400,000 Year 2 $4,500,000 Year 3 $4,500,000 Year 4 $4,500,000 The CFO has asked you to compute Project Lambda’s initial investment using the information currently available to you. He has offered the following suggestions and observations: • A project’s IRR represents the return the project would generate when its NPV is zero or the discounted value of its cash inflows equals the discounted value of its cash outflows—when the cash flows…

Last month, Company Z analyzed a project whose cash flows are shown below. However, before the decision to accept or reject the project, the Federal Reserve took actions that changed interest rates (and, therefore, the firm's WACC). The Fed's actions did not affect the forecasted cash flows. By how much did the change in the WACC affect the project's forecasted NPV? Old WACC 10.00%       New WACC 7.00%       Year 0 1 2 3 Cash Flow -1,100 600 600 600                                          Group of answer choices 115.47 65.98 103.10 0 (no change in NPV) 82.48

Last month, Lloyd's Systems analyzed the project whose cash flows are shown below. However, before the decision to accept or reject the project, the Federal Reserve took actions that changed interest rates and therefore the firm's WACC. The Fed's action did not affect the forecasted cash flows. By how much did the change in the WACC affect the project's forecasted NPV? Note that a project's projected NPV can be negative, in which case it should be rejected. Old WACC: 10.00%   New WACC: 9.50% Year 0     1   2   3   Cash flows -$1,000 $410 $410 $410