Question

Bellinger Industries is considering two projects for inclusion in its capital budget, and you have been asked to do the analysis. Both projects' after-tax cash flows are shown on the time line below. Depreciation, salvage values, net operating working capital requirements, and tax effects are all included in these cash flows. Both projects have 4-year lives, and they have risk characteristics similar to the firm's average project. Bellinger's WACC is 10%.

	0		1		2		3		4
Project A	-1,250		700		370		200		310
Project B	-1,250		280		315		395		750

What is Project Delta's IRR? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

%

What is the significance of this IRR?

It is the -Select-equity returncrossover rateinterest yieldCorrect 1 of Item 2, after this point when mutually exclusive projects are considered there is no conflict in project acceptance between the NPV and IRR approaches.

Review the graphs below. Select the correct graph that represents the NPV profile for Projects A and B.

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The correct graph is -Select-graph Agraph Bgraph Cgraph DCorrect 2 of Item 2.

Answer 1

1.
0+(700-280)/(1+r)+(370-315)/(1+r)^2+(200-395)/(1+r)^3+(310-750)/(1+r)^4=0
=>r=11.96%

2.
crossover rate

3.
Grah B captures crossover rate correctly