Tag Archives: Project analysis

Independent and Mutually Exclusive Projects

Independent and Mutually Exclusive Projects Understanding of classification of capital budgeting projects plays a crucial role while analyzing viability of projects. What is mutually Independent Projects? A Project whose cash flows have no impact on the acceptance or rejection of other projects is termed as Independent Project (not mutually exclusive). Thus, all such Projects which meet… Read More »

Internal Rate Of Return And Mutually Exclusive Projects

Internal Rate Of Return And Mutually Exclusive Projects……. What’s the Concern? While considering the mutually exclusive projects, IRR technique can be misleading. Investment projects are said to be mutually exclusive if only one project could be accepted and others would have to be rejected. NPV and IRR methods for project evaluation leads to conflicting results… Read More »

Profitability Index

Profitability Index Profitability index (PI) is the ratio of investment to pay off a suggested project. It is a useful capital budgeting technique for grading projects because it measures the value created per unit of investment made by the investor. This technique is also known as Profit Investment Ratio (PIR), Benefit-Cost Ratio and Value Investment… Read More »

Capital Budgeting Process

Capital Budgeting Process Capital Budgeting Process is a process of identifying and evaluating projects where businesses are expected to receive cash flows over a period longer than one year. Any corporate capital budgeting decisions that can affect future earnings can be evaluated using this framework. Examples of Capital Budgeting Decisions: For example, decisions about whether to… Read More »

Net Present Value (NPV) Formula and Example

How to Calculate Net Present Value using Excel? The calculation of net present value is used when a business has to identify a viable investment opportunity. There are many ways to calculate the NPV. The simplest way is:                  By Use of NPV function in Excel: The NPV function consists of the following arguments: =NPV (Rate, FCF… Read More »