A College Intern Working at Anderson Paints Evaluated Potential Investments

question 50

Multiple Choice

A college intern working at Anderson Paints evaluated potential investments that is, capital budgeting projects using the firm's average required rate of return (WACC) , and he produced the following report for the capital budgeting manager:
$\begin{array}{llll}\underline{\text { Project }} &\underline{\text { NPV } }&\underline{\text { IRR }} & \underline{\text { Risk }} \\\text { LOM } & \$ 1,500 & 12.5 \% & \text { High } \\\text { QUE } & 0 & 11.0 & \text { Low } \\\text { YUP } & 800 & 9.5 & \text { Averag } \\\text { DOG } & (450) & 10.0 & \text { Low }\end{array}$
The capital budgeting manager usually considers the risks associated with capital budgeting projects before making her final decision.If a project has a risk that is different from average, she adjusts the average required rate of return by adding or subtracting 2 percentage points.If the four projected listed above are independent, which one(s) should the capital budgeting manager recommend be purchased?

• A)Project LOM only, because it has both the highest NPV and the higher IRR.
• B)Projects LOM, QUE, and YUP, because they all have positive NPVs and their IRRs.
• C)Projects DOG and QUE, because their IRRs are greater than their risk-adjusted discount he projects returns are higher than the rates of return that capital budgeting manager uses to evaluate them.
• D)Projects QUE, YUP, and DOG, because their IRRs are greater than their risk-adjusted discount rates that is, the projects returns are higher than the rates of return that capital budgeting manager uses to evaluate them.
• E)There is not enough information to answer this question, because the firm's average required rate of return cannot be determined.

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