Essay: Capital Project Analysis With Budgeting Techniques.

Statement showing calculation of cash inflows and present value of capital project

In this assignment analysis of capital project with the help of capital budgeting techniques has been done. Net present value and payback period has been calculated of the device part capital project. Net present value measures profit of capital project and payback period measures liquidity of the capital project. In second section of this report, analysis of capital budgeting techniques in terms of average risk has been undertaken. JB Hi-Fi is the business organisation that has been taken for analysis in second section. Assessment of working capital in terms of cash conversion cycle has been undertaken. In this assignment, analysis of credit risk that commercial papers has been undertaken. Different types of asset financing policy has been analysed and advantage of aggressive asset financing policy over other policies has been undertaken.

Statement showing calculation of cash inflows from the device part project

Statement showing calculation of present value of the part device project

(Ghiami and Beullens, 2016)

NPV= PV of cash inflows ($ 1,239,076) – PV of cash outflows ($ 875,000) =$ 364,076

Payback period = 4 years + ($ 875,000 – $ 454,212) / $ 1,619,361

4 years + $ 420,788 / $ 1,619,361 = 4.26 years

Present value of cash inflow @ 14 % = $ 1,239,076

Present value of cash inflow @ 30 % = ($ 93,976)

IRR = LPVF + (Present Value of LPVF – Cash outflow) / (PV of LPVF - PV of HPVF) * [HPVF - LPVF]

LPVF = Lower present value factor and HPVF = Higher present value factor

(Baker and English, 2011)

14 % + [($ 1,239,076 - $ 875,000) / ($ 1,239,076 - ($ 93,976) x (30 % - 14 %)]

14 % + [$ 364,076 / ($ 1,333,053) * 16] = 18.368 %

Depreciation = Cost of asset * (asset held days in a year ÷ 365 days) * (100% ÷ Life of asset)

$ 800000 * 365 days / 365 days * (100 % ÷ 5 years) = $ 160000

Capital Project (Conveyer System)

In this memo, analysis of two capital projects has been analysed and recommendations regarding acceptance and rejection of capital decisions. Capital Budgeting Techniques of net present value has been used and decisions are based on same.

Capital project are required to be evaluated in terms of its profitability, liquidity and solvency position. Following techniques has been used for evaluating capital project:

Net present value- NPV is the capital budgeting method that is used to calculate profits from the project in real value terms. Positive NPV denotes profit in the undertaken project and negative NPV denotes loss in capital project. In present case, there is positive NPV therefore project shall be accepted (Leyman and Vanhoucke, 2017).

Payback period- This the period of time within which cash outflow of the capital project are earned back in the form of cash inflows. Lower payback period shall be accepted and project having higher payback period shall be rejected (Lin and Chung, 2015). Payback period of project is at higher side therefore this is negative point. On the basis of payback period, project shall be rejected.

Net Present Value

Internal rate of return-   It is the rate defined in percentage terms at which present value of cash inflows are equal to present value of cash outflows (Percoco and Borgonovo, 2011). If IRR is less then cost of capital of the project then project shall be rejected and vice versa. Recommendation: Capital project of device part project shall be accepted.

Following are total cost that will be incurred on different conveyer system:

Another capital investment that is taken into consideration is of conveyer system. According to calculations, System C shall be accepted.

JB Hi-Fi is the business organization established in Australia under retail industry. Main business line of JB Hi-Fi is electronic products that are consumed by customers throughout Australia. JB Hi-Fi has reported its Earnings before interest and tax of $ 152.20 million in the year ending 2016. Average risk capital budgeting project can be defined as the level of change in project estimates or in its cash flows. Beta of the JB Hi-Fi is 2 times therefore there is high level of risk involve in any capital project undertaken by JB Hi-Fi. Beta of the business organizations are based on market rates and market fluctuations. NPV of the capital project is largely depends its estimated cash inflows and cost of capital. Beta of JB Hi-Fi will impact cost of capital and estimated cash flows   of the capital project undertaken by JB Hi-Fi (Keef and Roush, 2012). Nature and extend of capital project also made impact on NPV of the project. Nature and size of capital project also impact cash flows and ultimately NPV (Santandrea and Giorgino, 2017).

Statement showing cash conversion cycle of JB Hi-Fi: 

Statement showing cash conversion cycle comparison of JB Hi-Fi and Amazon:

In order to analyse working capital of JB Hi-Fi, cash conversion cycle shall be used as base for analysis. Cash conversion cycle is the period of time stated in terms of days within which cash is collected from sales made during the period (Cagle, Campbell & Jones, 2013). It is calculated by analysing sales days outstanding (sales revenue remains outstanding as debtors), inventory days outstanding and payables periods. As compared to Amazon (competitor of JB Hi-Fi) it has adverse cash conversion cycle or in other words worst working capital management. Therefore management of JB Hi-Fi shall required to manage their cash conversion cycle either by increasing sales outstanding period or inventory period or by decreasing payable period for the reporting period (Shahbazi and Nazaripour, 2015).

Commercial papers are a short term source of financial for the business organization for managing their working capital requirements and for the management liquidity in the business operations. In this case of Telstra has issued commercial papers for managing their short term liquidity and to support working capital, therefore this shows risk in terms of rollover risk i.e. when Telstra is not able to sell new commercial papers at the time of maturity of already issued paper and they are not available with liquidity or liquid assets (Ellison and Tischbirek, 2014). Commercial papers are highly risky and expensive form of source of finance. As maturity of commercial papers are very less and used by the business organization only at the time of emergency.

Payback period

In case of Telstra Limited, management has been using very aggressive short term asset financing policy or strategy. Hedging asset financing policy, aaggressive asset financing, highly aggressive asset financing policy and conservative strategy are four asset financing policy.

Telstra limited has used aggressive short term asset financing policy in order to back their short term assets. Aggressive short term asset financing policy is used by business organization in order to maintain their short term liquidity or short term working capital floating in the business operations of entity (Al-Abedallat, 2016). Same has been used by Telstra Limited for financing short term assert i.e. by issuing commercial papers which are highly risky and short term financing need.

With the help of aggressive short term asset financing policy business cycle or cash conversion cycle can be improved. Since Telstra limited has been using commercial papers (short term finance) for its seasonal requirement or for short term working capital requirement. Hedging asset financing at this moment does not work as it will focus on match asset and liabilities on both long terms and short term basis. On the other hand, conservatism asset financing policy support financing through long term sources of finance. But these are not adequate for financing short term assets or managing liquidity of the business operations. At last, highly aggressive asset financing policy used here is more adequate as compared to hedging policy in terms of quick liquidity management that aggressive asset financing policy provided, hedging policy is not able to provide at that level.

Conclusion

After analysis of this assignment, it can be concluded that there are majorly two capital budgeting techniques that can be sued to evaluate capital projects. Capital projects can be evaluated both in terms of cash inflows and cash outflows from the project. In this case, it can be concluded that management of Initect limited has applied net present value and payback period capital budgeting technique for evaluating capital project of the device part project. Net present value of project is positive, therefore project shall be accepted. Equivalent annual net present value of cash out flows has been determined and system C has been selected as it has lowest cost. JB Hi-Fi is the company that has been analyzed in this report in terms of average risk capital budgeting project undertaken by the company. At last analysis of issue of commercial paper suggests aggressive asset financing policy of the Telstra Limited. 

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