Estimating the cash flow generated by $1 invested in a project The profitability index (PI) is a capital budgeting tool that is defined as the present value of a project's cash inflows divided by the absolute value of its initial cash outflow. Consider thits case: Happy Dog Soap Company is considering investing 53,000,000 in a project that ia expected to generate the following net cash flows: Happy Dog Soap Company uses a WaCc of 9% when evaluating proposed capital budpeling prolects. Based on these cash flows, determine this frofect's PI (rounded to four decimal places) Happy Dog Soap Company uses a WACC of 9% when evaluating proposed capital budgeting projects. Based on these cash flows, determine this project's PI (rounded to four decimal places) 0.4612 0.4843 0.5304 0.5073 Happy Doo Soap Company's decision to accept or reject thls project is independent of its dedisions on other projects. Based on the projectis PI, the firm should the project. By comparison, the NPV of this project is .On the basis of this evaluation criterion, Happy Dog Soap Company should in the project because the project increase the firm's value. A project with a negative NPV will have a PI that is when it has a pl of 1.0, it will have an NPV