- Gavin and Alex, baseball consultants, are in need of a microcomputer network for their staff. They have received three proposals, with related facts as follows:

	Proposal A	Proposal B	Proposal C
Initial investment in equipment	$150,000	$150,000	$150,000
Annual cash increase in operations:
Year 1	120,000	75,000	150,000
Year 2	30,000	75,000	0
Year 3	60,000	60,000	0
Salvage value	0	0	0
Estimated life	3 yrs	3 yrs	1 yr

The company uses straight-line depreciation for all capital assets.

Question 1: Compute the payback period, net present value, and accrual accounting rate of return with initial investment, for each proposal. Use a required rate of return of 18%. (10 points)

Question 2: Rank each proposal 1, 2, and 3 using each method separately. Which proposal is best? Why? Note: in the event of ties, assign the average of the tied positions to each project. (five points)