Assignment 11 The Basics of Capital Budgeting Due on Tomorrow at 11:59 PM EDT 6. The payback period The payback method helps firms establish and identify a maximum acceptable payback period that helps in their capital budgeting decisions. Consider the case of Blue Hamster Manufacturing Inc.: Blue Hamster Manufacturing Inc. is a small firm, and several of its managers are worried about how soon the firm will be able to recover its initial investment from Project Delta's expected future cash flows. To answer this question, Blue Hamster's CFO has asked that you compute the project's payback period using the following expected net cash flows and assuming that the cash flows are received evenly throughout each year. Complete the following table and compute the project's conventional payback period. For full credit, complete the entire table. Year 2 Year 3 Year 1 Year 0 $1,750,000 $4,250,000 5,000,000 $2,000,000 Expected cash flow Cumulative cash flow Conventional payback period ype here to search