Value and Capital Budgeting Corporate Finance Academic Year 2012/2013 1. The treasurer of Amaro Canned Fruits has projected the cash flows of projects A‚ B and C as follows (measured in e): Year 0 Project A Project B Project C Year 1 70‚ 000 130‚ 000 75‚ 000 Year 2 70‚ 000 130‚ 000 60‚ 000 −100‚ 000 −200‚ 000 −100‚ 000 Suppose the relevant discount rate is 12% per annum. (a) Compute the profitability index for each of the three projects. (b) Compute the NPV for each of the three projects. (c) Suppose
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investments in a variety of capital projects. Whether it is the need to purchase new machinery‚ expanding the production facility‚ or even buying new transport‚ all these projects require firms to make high investment now. In all these projects‚ the cash flow or the benefit is expected to be received for several years. A company at any time may have many capital projects in foresight. It is the responsibility of the finance manager to evaluate these projects through the capital budgeting process which
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assignment should be submitted on Blackboard. No late assignment will be accepted. Enjoy the problems! Capital Budgeting The C & S Company manufactures ice-cream bars. They are considering the purchase of a new machine that will top the bar with high quality chocolate. The cost of the machine is $900‚000; it has a life of 10 years and the company will have to increase its net working capital by $20‚000 to use it. The machine can produce up to 1‚000‚000 ice-cream bars annually. The marketing director
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The Capital Budget Instructor: Dr. Joseph McCue Public Budgeting and Finance - PAD 505 August 11‚ 2013 The Oklahoma City budget includes the addition of 40 new police officer positions‚ bringing the total number of uniform police positions to 1‚116. Eleven more positions were added in other City departments. Total City positions will increase 1.1 percent to 4‚580. The budget also includes an additional $1 million for METRO Transit bus service enhancements. The City hired
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The Super Project Flows: 1) Test Market Expenses: Do not Include it is a sunk cost and cannot be recovered if the project were not to become operational. 2) Overhead cost: The Super project will initially not require incremental overhead costs. However‚ if and when the project grows‚ incremental overhead expenses will be incurred specific to the project. This has to be captured in capital budgeting to accurately assess the project. Here we assume that the project will not require considerable
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The Super Project – Summary Introduction In 1967‚ General Foods was considering to expand their portfolio with a new product called Super. Super was a dessert supposed to penetrate a dessert market in growth. The investment required $200K‚ $80K for building modifications and $120K for machinery and equipment. General Foods already had an agglomerator that could be used to manufacture Super. The $120K was meant to pay for packaging machinery. In order to decide whether to accept or decline this
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The Super Project The Super Project case mainly deals with the efficiency of project tool analysis in capital budgeting process. The three techniques that General Foods management used to determine whether Super Project was a worthwhile project were: • Incremental basis • Facilities-used basis • Fully allocated facilities and costs basis The three techniques mentioned above will be discussed in more details in question 4 below. Questions: 1. What are the relevant cash flows for General Foods
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Super Project Case What are the relevant cash flows that General Foods should use in evaluating the Super Project? In particular‚ how should management deal with such issues as Test-market expenses? Overhead Expenses? Erosion of Jell-O contribution margin? Allocation of charges for the use of the excess agglomerator? The relevant cash flows that General Foods should use in evaluating the Super Project are considered Incremental cash flows and are “the changes in the firm’s cash flows
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The Super Project Introduction General Foods (GF) expects Super‚ a new powdered dessert‚ to capture 10% share of the total dessert market (2% coming from the erosion of Jell-O sales). The company’s Financial Analyst has issued a memo comparing three alternative techniques for project evaluations‚ illustrating the problems and limitations inherent in using ROFE (return on funds employed) and payback as evaluation methods. The disparate ROFE results obtained with these methods are due to differences
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The Super Project Case Study FIN 3717 Braden Eddy‚ Lauren Gear and Dakota Conravey The Super Project Case Study FIN 3717 Braden Eddy‚ Lauren Gear and Dakota Conravey Statement of Facts General Foods is a large corporation organized by product lines. They are evaluating Super Project‚ the manufacture of a new powdered dessert. Crosby Sanberg‚ a financial analysis manager‚ must determine the value in accepting the proposal‚ along with J.C. Kresslin‚ the Corporate Controller. The Super
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