Which of the following statements is CORRECT? One drawback of the discounted payback is that this method does not consider the time value of money, while the regular payback overcomes this drawback. One drawback of the payback criterion is that this method does not take account of cash flows beyond the payback period. The shorter a project's payback period, the less desirable the project is normally considered to be by this criterion. The regular payback ignores cash flows beyond the payback period, but the discounted payback method overcomes this problem. If a project's payback is positive, then the project should be accepted because it must have a positive NPV. Question 9 (10 points) Which of the following statements is CORRECT? The IRR assumes reinvestment at the IRR, and that is generally not as valid as assuming reinvestment at the WACC, which is the reinvestment rate assumption of the NPV method. If the cost of capital is less than the crossover rate, then the IRR and the NPV criteria will not result in a conflict between the projects. One project will rank higher by both criteria. (HINT: Ch11 Slide 23. What condition leads to conflicts between IRR and NPV?) A project's MIRR is unaffected by changes in the WACC if cash inflows are compounded at the WACC to find the terminal value. If a project's NPV is greater than zero, then its IRR must be less than the WACC. If the IRR of normal Project X is greater than the IRR of mutually exclusive (and also normal) Project Y, we can conclude that the firm should always select X rather than Y if X has NPV > 0