You are the new hired Financial Manager for the Sterling Stationary & Co. You are considering the company in investing in a new state of the art printer system. The CFO has told you that an appropriate discount rate is 8%.

The company assumes that the working capital will be returned, at the end of the life of the printer and that the Straight Line Depreciation is used on all printers of the company.

a. In conversation regarding the new printer system with your CFO, he says that we should accept the project if the expected IRR is 7%, is this correct, why or why not?

b. He notes that the cash flows will be negative in year 0 and year 1, then positive in year 2, then negative in year 3, then positive again in year 4. What capital budgeting method will not work in this situation?

c. He states that he likes the payback period method as it incorporates the time value of money, is this correct or incorrect?

d. He suggests that you consider two other printing systems of varying values and compare them all, which capital budgeting method is the best at comparing separate projects of different size?