four boss, the chief financial officer (CFO) for Southern Textiles, has just handed you the estimated cash lows for two proposed projects. Project L involves adding a new item to the firm's fabric line. It would take some time to build up the market for this product, so the cash inflows would increase over time. Project S nvolves an add-on to an existing line, and its cash flows would decrease over time. Both projects have 3-year ives because Southern is planning to introduce an entirely new fabric at that time. Here are the net cash flow estimates (in thousands of dollars): The CFO also made subjective risk assessments of each project, and he concluded that the projects both have risk characteristics thangre similar to the firm's average project. Southern's required rate of return is 10%. You must now determine whether one or both of the projects should be accepted. a. What is capital budgeting? b. What is the difference between independent and mutually exclusive projects? c. (1) What is the payback period? Find the traditional payback periods for Project L and Project S. (2) What is the difference between the traditional payback and the discounted payback? What is a. What is capital budgeting? b. What is the difference between independent and mutually exclusive projects? c. (1) What is the payback period? Find the traditional payback periods for Project L and Project S. 2.375 years (2) What is the difference between the traditional payback and the discounted payback? What is each project's discounted payback? (3) What are the main disadvantages of the traditional payback? Explain which project has the better payback period. d. (1) Define the term net present value (NPV). What is each project's NPV? Project L 18.7828 Project - 2019 Cengage Leaming Al Rights Reserved May not be scanned, copled or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible webeite, in whole or in part. S 19.9849 (2) Define the term internal rate of return (IRR). What is each project's IRR? e. Which is the better project according to NPV and IRR