Your answer should be in full sentences and $1-2$ paragraphs. Each paragraph should be $4-6$ sentences.

$1.$ At an executive meeting, a CFO claims that the NPV of a proposed factory expansion is very high $-$ an expected NPV of $1$ billion dollars. Another executive counters the CFO$$s analysis, by stating that the payback period is too long with estimates of approximately $50$ years. If you were also at this executive meeting, what would be your analysis on these differing viewpoints?