Giant Machinery Ltd is considering to invest in one of the two following Projects to buy a new equipment. Each project will last 5 years and have no salvage value at the end. The company’s required rate of return for all investment projects is 9%. The cash flows of the projects are provided below.   project 1 project 2 cost 175000 185000 future cash flows     year 1 76000 87000 year 2 83000 78000 year 3 67000 69000 year 4 65000 65000 year 5 55000 57000 Required: a) Identify which project should the company accept based on NPV method.  (Note: Please round up the result of each calculation of PV to 2 decimal places only for simplification) b) Identify which project should the company accept based on simple pay back method if the payback criteria is maximum 2 years.  c) Which project Giant Machinery should choose if two methods are in conflict.

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Giant Machinery Ltd is considering to invest in one of the two following Projects to buy a new
equipment. Each project will last 5 years and have no salvage value at the end. The company’s required
rate of return for all investment projects is 9%. The cash flows of the projects are provided below.

  project 1 project 2
cost 175000 185000
future cash flows    
year 1 76000 87000
year 2 83000 78000
year 3 67000 69000
year 4 65000 65000
year 5 55000 57000



Required:
a) Identify which project should the company accept based on NPV method.  (Note: Please
round up the result of each calculation of PV to 2 decimal places only for simplification)
b) Identify which project should the company accept based on simple pay back method if the
payback criteria is maximum 2 years. 
c) Which project Giant Machinery should choose if two methods are in conflict.

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