Mr. Reynolds has asked each member of the committee to carefully review the data related to Mr. Meek's proposal, and then send him an email message letting him know your initial thoughts. In your message, you might want to take into consideration the following information:
This is not intended to be an "all inclusive" listing of the kinds of information that you might want to take into consideration when assessing the feasibility of a capital budgeting proposal. In the case study, the years go from 1994 through 1998, so you're asked to use the range of years going from 2015 through 2019.
Using the case study below:
Regional Health System: The Satellite Health Park Strategy. In this case, we see the Florida-based, free standing hospital later became an integrated delivery system (IDS) following its implementation of a Board approved restructuring. This restructuring came about as the organization began to experience a decline in patient service revenue as the federal government cut Medicare reimbursements in an attempt to lessen the federal deficit. The payer mix is heavy weighted to Medicare, since roughly 45% of the hospital's primary and secondary markets is comprised of persons 65+, which is disproportionately larger than the national average of 13%.
By all accounts, the restructuring has resulted in an improvement in the bottom line performance of the system. The Chief Executive Officer has remained concerned that long-term financial solvency of the system could be at risk if additional steps aren't taken to secure the company's future. He has come up with the idea of developing a satellite health park that will provide an array of outpatient services outside the hospital setting. The CEO believes the park will increase patient service revenue and reduce overhead and other costs, while achieving economies of scale; however, he would like to reconvene the system's strategic planning committee to take a deeper look into the viability of this proposal. Mr. Michael Reynolds, SVP and CFO, is chairing the committee and you and some of your colleagues have been assigned to serve as a member.
The CEO's Proposal should be accepted considering following :
- The NPV of the project is positive. NPV indicates that against initial capital investment the discounted future cash flow is positive by 6,939,411
- The discounted payback period of 3.3 year. The payback period is comparatively smaller which indicates low risk. If there is higher payback period, it come with number of uncertainties like change in regulation, change in demand & supply which actually increase risk of the project.
- The IRR of the project is 15%. It is quite higher than cost of borrowing of 8.25% hence it makes sense to go for borrowing to invest in project
- The profitability index of 1.17 corroborates the finding that project will generate positive discounted cash flow against investments
Mr. Reynolds has asked each member of the committee to carefully review the data related to...
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