FIN440 Capital Budgeting Case - Barrister Industries

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Capital Budgeting Case - Barrister Industries

You are the division finance manager for Barrister Industries, a publicly traded manufacturing company. The division head comes to you very excited, because he just met with a new customer that wants Barrister to be the sole source manufacturer of a key component for one of its current, well selling products. The division head asks you to prepare a financial analysis of whether Barrister should pursue this opportunity.

You discuss the situation with the sales manager and learn that the customer intends to purchase the part from Barrister for the next five years, and will agree to a firm contract for the first three years.

Financial Management: Principles and Application - Caledonia, etc

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Prepare a response to the Caledonia Products Integrative Problem located near the end of Ch. 10 in Financial Management: Principles and Applications.

Formulate answers to questions 11a-11d, 12a–12e and 13a-13d

11. Caledonia is considering two investments with one-year lives. The more expensive of the two

is the better and will produce more savings. Assume these projects are mutually exclusive and that the required rate of return is 10 percent. Given the following after-tax net cash flows:

YEAR PROJECT A PROJECT B

0 −$195,000 −$1,200,000

1 240,000 1,650,000

a. Calculate the net present value.

b. Calculate the profitability index.

c. Calculate the internal rate of return.

d. If there is no capital-rationing constraint, which project should be selected? If there is a capital-rationing constraint, how should the decision be made?

12. Caledonia is considering two additional mutually exclusive projects. The cash flows associated with these projects are as follows:

YEAR PROJECT A PROJECT B

0 −$100,000 −$100,000

1 32,000 0

2 32,000 0

3 32,000 0

4 32,000 0

5 32,000 $200,000

The required rate of return on these projects is 11 percent.

a. What is each project’s payback period?

b. What is each project’s net present value?

c. What is each project’s internal rate of return?

d. What has caused the ranking conflict?

e. Which project should be accepted? Why?

13. The final two mutually exclusive projects that Caledonia is considering involve mutually exclusive pieces of machinery that perform the same task. The two alternatives available provide the following set of after-tax net cash flows:

YEAR EQUIPMENT A EQUIPMENT B

0 −$100,000 −$100,000

1 65,000 32,500

2 65,000 32,500

3 65,000 32,500

4 32,500

5 32,500

6 32,500

7 32,500

8 32,500

9 32,500

Equipment A has an expected life of three years, whereas equipment B has an expected life of

nine years. Assume a required rate of return of 14 percent.

a. Calculate each project’s payback period.

b. Calculate each project’s net present value.

c. Calculate each project’s internal rate of return.

d. Are these projects comparable?

e. Compare these projects using replacement chains and EAAs. Which project should be selected? Support your recommendation.