Understanding risks that affect projects and the impact of risk consideration Yatta Net International has manufacturing, distribution, retail, and consulting divisions. Projects undertaken by the manufacturing and distributic divisions tend to be low-risk projects, because these divisions are well established and have predictable demand. The company started its retalla consulting divisions within the last year, and it is unknown If these divisions will be profitable. The company knew that opening these new division would be risky, but its management believes the divisions have the potential to be extremely profitable under favorable market conditions. The company is currently using its WACC to evaluate new projects for all divisions. If Yatta Net International does not risk-adjust its discount rate for specific projects properly, which of the following is likely to occur over time? Che all that apply. The firm will accept too many relatively safe projects. The firm will accept too many relatively risky projects. The firm will become less valuable. How do managers typically deal with within-firm risk and beta risk when they are evaluating a potential project? Subjectively Quantitatively Consider the case of another company. Turnkey Printing is evaluating two mutually exclusive projects. They both require a $5 million investment today and have expected NPVs of $1,000,000. Management conducted a full risk analysis of these two projects, and the results are shown below. ity in Risk Measure Project A Project B Consider the case of another company. Turnkey Printing is evaluating two mutually exclusive projects. They both require a $5 million investment today and have expected NPVS of $1,000,000. Management conducted a full risk analysis of these two projects, and the results are shown below. Project A $400,000 Project B $600,000 Risk Measure Standard deviation of project's expected NPVS Project beta Correlation coefficient of project cash flows (relative to the firm's existing projects) 0.6 Which of the following statements about these projects' risk is correct? Check all that apply. Project has more market risk than Project A. Project A has more market risk than Project B. Project A has more corporate risk than Project B. Project has more stand-alone risk than Project A