Payback period is the number of years required to recover the cost of project or initial cash out flows. Say a project requires an initial investment of $10,000 and you can expect cash inflows at the end of each of the next four years in amounts of $5,000 $4,000 $3,000 and $1,000
N---- CF ----------- Cumulative Cash Flow
0---- -10,000(p)
1---- 5,000 -------- 5,000
2q-- 4,000 -------- 9,000 r
3---- 3,000s ------ 12,000
4---- 1,000 -------- 13,000
As we notice that year before recovery is 2. And to get the remaining months out of Year 3, we do the following calculations
(10,000 - 9,000)/3000
1,000/3,000
0.333 years
0.333 x 12 months
4 months
Thus regular payback period is 2 years and 4 months.
Chat with our AI personalities
- the payback period is to dependent on cash inflows which are hard to predict. - The payback period only considers revenue, does not consider profits.
The payback period is ascertained by calculating the number of years needed to recover the cash invested in a project, For example, an investment of 1000 provides a return of 200,300,500 in consecutive three years. Then total of return in 3 years will be equal to the original investment. Hence the payback period is three years.
assets value $200000and number of year five cash flow is 70000,80000, 90000,90000and100000.and depreciation are $40000 each year .find out payback period for each assets
It's not a direct measure of a project's contribution to stockholder's wealth. You may reject project's that should be accepted when using the NPV analysis (best method used for determining whether or not a project is accepted in Capital Budgeting). Discounted Payback Period AdvantagesConsiders the time value of money Considers the riskiness of the project's cash flows (through the cost of capital) Disadvantages No concrete decision criteria that indicate whether the investment increases the firm's value Requires an estimate of the cost of capital in order to calculate the payback Ignores cash flows beyond the discounted payback periodYounes Aitouazdi: University of Houston Downtown
Initial Net Investment / (Annual expected cash flow + salvage value)