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by Uditha Jayasinghe
Contents
• The Opportunity Cost of an Investment
• The Concept of Time Value of Money
• The Present Value and Future Value
• Compounding and Discounting
• Discount Factor Table
• Annuity Factor Table
• Capital Budgeting Techniques
• The Concept of Net Present Value (NPV)
• Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
• Profitability Index
• Capital Rationing
• Payback and Accounting Rate of Return
• References
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The Opportunity Cost of an Investment
• What options are available to investors?
– If prefers to avoid risk, then invest in government securities;
– If prefers to take risk, then invest in ordinary shares of a companies.
• The rates of return that are available from investments in securities in financial
markets such as ordinary shares and government securities represent the opportunity
cost of an investment in capital projects.
• The opportunity cost of the investment is also known as the minimum required rate of
return, cost of capital, or discount rate.
• This is true because money that you have right now can be invested and earn a return,
thus creating a larger amount of money in the future.
Example: (P4.1)
Peter is trying to sell a piece of raw land. Yesterday he was offered $10,000 for the
property by John. He was about ready to accept the offer when Jimmy offered him
$11,424.
However, the second offer was to be paid a year from now. Peter has satisfied himself
that both buyers are honest and financially solvent, so he has no fear that the offer he
selects will fall through. Which offer should Peter choose?
Year 0.………………….……….1
Mike, Peter’s financial adviser, points out that if Peter takes the first offer, he could invest
the $10,000 in the bank at an insured rate of 12%. At the end of one year, he would have:
$10,000 + (0.12 @ $10,000) or $10,000 @ 1.12 = $11,200
(Principal) + (Interest)
• In other words, at a 12% interest rate, Peter is indifferent between $10,200 today or
$11,424 next year.
• If you gave him $10,200 today, he could put it in the bank and receive $11,424 next
year. Because the second offer has a present value of $10,200, whereas the first offer
is for only $10,000, present value analysis also indicates that Peter should take the
second offer.
In other words, both future value analysis and present value analysis lead to the same
decision. As it turns out, present value analysis and future value analysis must always lead
to the same decision.
FVn = V0 (1 + K)n
The opportunity cost of capital for both projects is 10%. You are required to calculate the
net present value for each project.
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The Concept of Net Present Value
Question: (P4.5)
Alpha Ltd., has the opportunity to invest in two investments with the following initial cost
& returns. Residual value in case of X is $4,000 and in case of Y is $2,000. The cost of
capital in both situations are 10%.
Required:
Calculate the NPV of Investment X & Y.
• IRR is the discount rate that will cause the net present value of an investment to be
zero.
• Alternatively, the internal rate of return can be described as the maximum cost of
capital that can be applied to finance a project without causing harm to the
shareholders.
NPV < 0
- Shareholder wealth decreases
PI = PV of cash inflows
Initial cash outflow