15. Your company has a proposed Capital Investment that has a 3-year useful life. Make up your own data in the following format:

Original Cost of Investment	$80,000
Residual Value (must be greater than 0)	$25,000
Year one Net Annual Cash Flow	$50,000
Year two Net Annual Cash Flow (must be different than year 1)	$65,000
Year three Net Annual Cash Flow	$75,000
Minimum acceptable Rate of Return (choose 7%, 9%, 11%, or 14%)	9%
Annual Net Income	$7,000

Use the following Present Value of $1 table for parts a, and b:

Year (period)	7%	9%	11%	14%
1	0.935	0.917	0.901	0.877
2	0.873	0.842	0.812	0.769
3	0.816	0.772	0.731	0.675

a) Calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) of your investment. Please indicate positive (+), or negative (-) with your answer).

b) Calculate the Present Value Index of your investment (round to 0.00).

c) Calculate the Cash Payback Period of your Investment (round to 0.0 years). If it is greater than 3 years write >3 years.

d) Calculate your investments Average Rate of Return (round to 00.0%).

e) Based on your calculations above, is your investments Internal Rate of Return (IRR) greater or less than your Minimum acceptable Rate of Return? Explain why.