List and compare all advantages and disadvantages of Payback Period Rule, Average Accounting Return, Internal Rate of Return, and Profitability Index.

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Chapter11: Capital Budgeting Decisions
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Problem 11Q: What is the equation to calculate the accounting rate of return?
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List and compare all advantages and disadvantages of Payback Period Rule, Average Accounting Return, Internal Rate of Return, and Profitability Index.

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Payback rule:

The Payback period is the length of time required to recover the initial cost of a project.

Following are the advantages and disadvantages of the Payback method:

Advantages:

  1. Payback method is easy to calculate
  2. Payback method is Simple to understand
  3. Payback method is Superior to ARR
  4. It uses cash flow.

Disadvantages

  1. It ignores all the Cash flow after the payback period
  2. It ignores the time value of money.

 

ARR:

The average accounting rate of return uses Net profit after tax for evaluating capital budgeting projects.

Following are the advantages and disadvantages of ARR method:

Advantages:

  1. ARR method is easy to calculate
  2. ARR method is Simple to understand
  3. PAT (profit after tax) can be easily acquired.
  4. The entire stream and all incomes are taken into consideration.

Disadvantages

  1. It ignores cash flow.
  2. It ignores the time value of money.
  3. It ignores risk and uncertainty
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