A company is considering investing in one of two projects for a period of three years. Information relating to both projects is shown below.

	Project A (000)	Project B (000)
Initial cost	390	690
Accounting Net Profit (this profit includes depreciation)
Year 1	120	200
Year 2	230	320
Year 3	160	320
Residual Value at the end of 3 years	150	240

All assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis. The companys cost of capital is 20% per annum.

The following discount table is provided.

Periods	8%	10%	12%	15%	20%	25%
1	0.926	0.909	0.893	0.870	0.833	0.8000
2	0.857	0.826	0.797	0.756	0.694	0.6400
3	0.794	0.751	0.712	0.658	0.579	0.5120
4	0.735	0.683	0.636	0.572	0.482	0.4096
5	0.681	0.621	0.567	0.497	0.402	0.3277

Required:

(a) Calculate annual cashflow for Project A and Project B. (6 marks)

(b) Where applicable, using annual cashflow in (a) for each project

(i) Payback period (2 marks)

(ii) accounting rate of return (5 marks)

(iii) net present value (6 marks)

(iv) Internal rate of return (8 marks)

(c) As per your calculations above, comment on the which project is most suitable. You must comment on the project to be accepted under each method and make an overall conclusion.