FIN5063 QUIZ

  1. A capital budgeting method that converts a project’s cash flows using a more consistent reinvestment rate prior to applying the IRR decision rule is referred to as ______________.  MIRR
  2. A capital budgeting technique that converts a project’s cash flows using a more consistent reinvestment rate prior to applying the Internal Rate of Return, IRR, decision rule   modified internal rate of return
  3. A capital budgeting technique that generates a decision rule and associated metric for choosing projects based on the total discounted value of their cash flows.  net present value
  4. A capital budgeting technique that generates a decision rule and associated metric for choosing projects based on the total discounted value of their cash flows is referred to as  NPV
  5. A capital budgeting technique that generates decision rules and associated metrics for choosing projects based upon the implicit expected geometric average of a project’s rate of return.  internal rate of return
  6. A company is considering two mutually exclusive projects, A and B. Project A requires an initial investment of $100, followed by cash flows of $95, $20 and $5. Project B requires an initial investment of $100, followed by cash flows of $0, $20 and $130. What is the IRR of the project that is best for the company’s shareholders? The firm’s cost of capital is 10%.   15.24%
  7. A company is considering two mutually exclusive projects, A and B. Project A requires an initial investment of $200, followed by cash flows of $185, $40 and $15. Project B requires an initial investment of $200, followed by cash flows of $0, $50 and $230. What is the IRR of the project that is best for the company’s shareholders? The firm’s cost of capital is 10%.   12.71%
  8. A decision rule and associated methodology for converting the NPV statistic into a ratebased metric is referred to as  Profitability Index
  9. A disadvantage of the payback statistic is that   All of these are disadvantages of payback
  10. A financial asset will pay you $10,000 at the end of 10 years if you pay premiums of $175 per year at the end of each year for 10 years. What is the IRR of this financial asset?  35.93%
  11. A financial asset will pay you $50,000 at the end of 20 years if you pay premiums of $975 per year at the end of each year for 20 years. What is the IRR of this financial asset?  9.02%
  12. A firm is evaluating a potential investment that is expected to generate cash flows of $100 in years 1 through 4 and $400 in years 5 through 7. The initial investment is $750. What is the payback for this investment?  4.88 years
  13.  A graph of a project’s ______ is a function of cost of capital   net present value
  14. A project costs $101,000 today and is expected to generate cash flows of $31,000 per year for the next 15 years. At what rate is the NPV equal to zero?     30.10%
  15. A project costs $91,000 today and is expected to generate cash flows of $11,000 per year for the next 20 years. The firm has a cost of capital of 8%. Should this project be accepted, and why?  Yes, the project should be accepted since it has a NPV = $16,999.62
  16. A project has normal cash flows. Its IRR is 15 percent and its cost of capital is 10 percent. Given this, the project must have:  an NPV that is greater than zero.
  17. A project’s IRR   is the average rate of return necessary to pay back the project’s capital providers
  18. All capital budgeting techniques    exclude some crucial information.
  19. All of the following are strengths of NPV except   Managers have a preference for using a statistic that is in percent instead of dollars
  20. All of the following capital budgeting tools are suitable for firms facing time constraints except ______.  NPV
  21. All of the following capital budgeting tools are suitable for non-normal cash flows except  Payback
  22. All of the following capital budgeting tools are suitable for non-normal cash flows except  Discounted Payback
  23. All of the following capital budgeting tools are suitable for non-normal cash flows except   IRR
  24. For a project with normal cash flows, what would you expect the relationship to be between the MIRR and the IRR?  Since the reinvestment rate of the MIRR statistic is lower than that of the IRR, you would expect the MIRR to be less than the IRR.
  25. Neither payback period nor discounted payback period techniques for evaluating capital projects account for  cash flows that occur after payback.
  26. Of the capital budgeting techniques discussed, which works equally well with normal and non-normal cash flows and with independent and mutually exclusive projects?  net present value
  27. Projects A and B are mutually exclusive. Project A costs $10,000 and is expected to generate cash inflows of $4,000 for 4 years. Project B costs $10,000 and is expected to generate a single cash flow in year 4 of $20,000. The cost of capital is 12%. Which project would you accept and why?  Project B because it has the higher NPV.
  28. Projects A and B are mutually exclusive. Project A costs $20,000 and is expected to generate cash inflows of $7,500 for 4 years. Project B costs $10,000 and is expected to generate a single cash flow in year 4 of $20,000. The cost of capital is 12%. Which project would you accept and why?  Project A because it has the higher NPV.
  29. Suppose two projects with normal cash flows, X and Y, have exactly the same required initial investment, but X has a longer payback. Can we say anything about X’s IRR versus that of Y?  The project with the longer payback will have the lower IRR, as its cash flows will, on average, be later than the other project’s.
  30. Suppose you have a project whose discounted payback is equal to its termination date. What can you say for sure about its PI?  It will have a PI and NPV of zero.
  31. The benchmark for the Profitability Index, PI, is the   zero or anything larger than zero
  32. The least-used capital budgeting technique in industry is   MIRR
  33. The MIRR statistic is different from the IRR statistic in that  The MIRR assumes that the cash inflows can be reinvested at the cost of capital
  34. The Net Present Value decision technique may not be the only pertinent unit of measure if the firm is facing    time or resource constraints
  35. The Net Present Value decision technique uses a statistic denominated in  currency
  36. These are groups or pairs of projects where you can accept one but not all   mutually exclusive
  37. These are sets of cash flows where all the initial cash flows are negative and all the subsequent ones are either zero or positive.  normal cash flows
  38. This technique for evaluating capital projects is particularly useful when firms face time constraints in repaying investors.  Payback
  39. This technique for evaluating capital projects tells how long it will take a firm to earn back the money invested in a project.  Payback
  40. This technique for evaluating capital projects tells how long it will take a firm to earn back the money invested in a project plus interest at market rates.  discounted payback
  41. Under what conditions can a rate-based statistic yield a different accept/reject decision than NPV?  Mutually exclusive projects that exhibit differences in scale or timing.
  42. We accept projects with a positive NPV because it means that   All of these
  43. When choosing between two mutually exclusive projects using the payback period method for evaluating capital projects, one would choose  the project that pays back the soonest if it is equal to or less than managers’ maximum payback period.
  44. Which of the following best describes the NPV profile?  A graph of a project’s NPV as a function of possible capital costs.
  45. Which of the following is incorrect regarding the IRR statistic?   For the IRR statistic to give a different accept/reject decision from NPV, the cash flows must be non-normal and the projects must be mutually exclusive
  46. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the NPV profile? The IRR appears as the intersection of the NPV profile with the x-axis.
  47. Which of the following statements is correct?   A weakness of both payback and discounted payback is that neither accounts for cash flows received after the payback.
  48. Which of the following statements is correct?   The reinvestment rate of NPV and MIRR is the same.
  49. Which of the following tools is suitable for choosing between mutually exclusive projects?   NPV
  50. Which rate-based decision statistic measures the excess return (the amount above and beyond the cost of capital for a project), rather than the gross return?   Profitability Index, PI
  51. Why is a project’s cost not an appropriate benchmark for its NPV?  Because the NPV has already subtracted out the project’s cost.

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