Project Selection - NPV vs BCR vs IRR vs payback

 

The answer is Project A

Feedback and explanation to this would be greatly appreciated.

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The choice is really only between A and B, since for C and D there are no hard core numbers so you cannot say for sure if 18% is better than $185K, neither can we conclude if 2 year payback will be better than benifit cost ratio of 1.6

So , Project A sure has $185K NPV, which is unambigous , Project B will need 1 million investment and benefit would be 1.6 Milion . However again we dont know what it will equate to in NPV terms.

So considering B, C, and D are ambigous, by theory of elimination A is right answer.

 Generally speaking, out of the four methods is Pay back period is most unreliable/inaccurate ?