Suppose Happy Dog Soap Company is evaluating a proposed capital budgeting project $($project Beta$)$ that will require an initial

investment of $$3,225,000.$ The project is expected to generate the following net cash flows:

Year $1$$$375,000$

Year $2$$$425,000$

Year $3$$$400,000$

Year $4$$$500,000$

Happy Dog Soap Company's weighted average cost of capital is $8\%,$ and project Beta has the same risk as the firm's average project. Based on the

cash flows, what is project Beta's NPV$?$

$-$$$1,828,361$

$-$$$1,403,361$

$-$$$2,194,033$

$-$$$5,053,361$

Making the accept or reject decision

Happy Dog Soap Company's decision to accept or reject project Beta is independent of its decisions on other projects. If the firm follows the NPV

method, it should

project Beta.

Suppose your bos:

Fd you to analyze two mutually exclusive projects$-$project A and project $B.$ Both projects require the same investment

amount, and the s reject sh inflows of Project A is larger than the sum of cash inflows of project B$.$ A coworker told you that you don't need to do an

NPV analysis of theprujects because you already know that project A will have a larger NPV than project B$.$ Do you agree with your coworker's

statement?

No$,$ the NPV calculation is based on percentage returns, so the size of a project's cash flows does not affect a project's NPV$.$

No$,$ the NPV calculation will take into account not only the projects' cash inflows but also the timing of cash inflows and outflows.

Consequently, project B could have a larger NPV than project A$,$ even though project A has larger cash inflows.

Yes, project A will always have the largest NPV$,$ because its cash inflows are greater than project B$\text{'}$s cash inflows.