36. The NPV and payback period Suppose you are evaluating a project with the cash inflows shown in the following table. Your boss has asked you to calculate the project's net present value (NPV). You don't know the project's initial cost, but you do know the project's regular, or conventional, payback period is 2.50 years. The project's annual cash flows are: Year Cash Flow Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 $350,000 400,000 600,000 Year 4 400,000 If the project's desired rate of return is 9.00%, the project's NPV-rounded to the nearest whole dollar-is $283,562 bital budgeting Which of the following statements indicates a disadvantage of using the regular, or conventional, payback decisions? Check all that apply. $301,285 The payback period is calculated using net income instead of cash flows. $319,008 The payback period does not take into account the cash flows produced over a project's entire lif $354,453 The payback period does not take into account the time value of money effects of a project's cash flows