Total Marks 5
Starting Date Thursday, June 02, 2022
Closing Date Wednesday, June 08, 2022
Status Open
Question Title GDB
Question Description
Discussion Question:
Mr. Anwar is recently appointed as CEO of ABC Corporation Limited. As a new head of the organization, he wants a briefing regarding the current situation of different departments in the organization. During the briefing from Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the organization, he comes to know that the liquidity position of the company is not sound as the current and quick ratios are 0.90 times and 0.30 times respectively. Mr. Anwar is a mechanical engineer and lacks the financial knowledge to comprehend the financial information.
Required:
Being a student of Business Finance, how would you interpret the results of current ratio and quick ratio to Mr. Anwar with reference to the liquidity position? If both ratios measure the liquidity, why is there a difference in their figures?
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SEMESTER FALL 2019
BUSINESS FINANCE (ACC501)
ASSIGNMENT NO. 01
DUE DATE: JANUARY 27, 2020 MARKS: 20
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After attempting this assignment, the students will be able to:
Evaluate any proposed project by using different capital budgeting techniques.
Understand the difference between NPV and IRR.
Derive inferences regarding the acceptance/rejections of the project.
ASSIGNMENT:
Alfa Corporation has identified the following two mutually exclusive projects. The CFO of the company wants to evaluate the identified projects. For this purpose he asked Mr. Naveed to evaluate those projects and establish their feasibility with the help of different capital budgeting techniques. Following are the details of the two mutually exclusive projects.
Period
Project A (Rs.)
Project B (Rs.)
0
-42,000
-42,000
1
25,000
15,000
2
21,000
17,000
3
15,000
23,000
4
11,000
27,000
As per the company policy, Mr. Naveed decided to evaluate both projects with the help of IRR and NPV techniques of capital budgeting.
Requirements:
I. What is the IRR for each of these projects? Which project company should accept according to IRR rule? (13 Marks)
II. What is the NPV for each of these projects? If the required rate of return is 12 percent. Which project company should accept according to NPV rule? (5 Marks)
III. If the decision on the basis of NPV is different than that of IRR, which particular criteria company should prefer and why? (2 Marks)
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