Light Sweet Petroleum, Inc., is trying to evaluate a generation project with the following cash flows:

Year Cash Flow 0 $39,000,000

1 63,000,000

2 12,000,000 Required:

(a) If the company requires a 12 percent return on its investments, should it accept this project? Why.

(b) Compute the IRR for this project. How many IRR are there? Using the IRR decision rule, should the company accept the project? What's going on here?