Question: A textile company has $ 20,00,000.00 available for investment.It has evaluated its options and has found that only four investments (W,X,Y & Z) have positive ner present values.All these investments are entirely independent of one other.However,they have an equal life period of 5 years.The risk free interest rate is 5% per anum.The cost of capital to the company is 10%.The relevant data for the selected investments are :
INVESTMENT INITIAL OUTLAY PRESENT VALUE OF FUTURE CASH FLOWS
W 800000.00 1000000.00
X 600000.00 1000000.00
Y 700000.00 1140000.00
Z 600000.00 1200000.00
Which investments should the firm adopt? Would your be different if the present value of future cash flows of project W were $ 1250000.00 instead of $ 1000000.00