The net present value (NPV) rule is considered one of the most common and preferred criteria thot generally lead to good investment decisions. Consider this case: Suppose Green Caterpillar Garden Supplies Inc, is evaluating a proposed capital budgeting project (project Beta) that will require an initial investment of $2,500,000, The project is expected to generate the following not cash flows: Green Caterpillar Garden Supplies Inc.; weighted averege cost of capital is 10%6, and project Eeta has the same risk as the firm's averege project. Dased on the cash flows, what is profect Beta's NPV? $530,319$780,31953,630,31951,130,319 Green Caterplliar Garden Supplies Incis decision to accept or reject project Beta is independent of its decisions on other projects. If the fim foliows the NPV method, it should project 8eta. Suppose your boss has atked you to andyre tws mutually exclusive projects-project A and project a. Both projects requle the same investment amount, and the sum of cash 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 sn NPV analysis of the profects becaute you already know that project A will have a larger NAV than project B. Do you agree with your cenerkert statement? No, the NPV calculation is based on percentage returns, so the size of a project's cash flews dpes not affect a projects NPV. Consequently, project B could have a larger NPV than project A, even though project A has larger canh inflows