HELP cost and revenues

matty ellis

I found some material and seems so long ago I did a lot of this.

I am fine with most of it just a few daft things.

On the cbt 1 on AAT 2.5B how do I get the payback period 2 years and 4 months

honestly tried loads of combinations on a calculator and can't seem to get it.

thanks in advance.

Nps

Hi,

You get the answer by using the actual sales flow values, not the present value ones. So in year 1 you recoup £300 of the £900 outlay, in year 2 you recoup £410, leaving £190 to recoup in year 3. In year 3 you recoup £610 so that is £50.8333 per month. 190/50.8333 = 3.73 or thereabouts meaning the full cost of the machine is not recouped until the end of the 4th month of year 3, or 2 years 4 months.

mentorkeith

Or you could take the remaining £190 divide by the total for 3rd year £610
190/610. This gives you a portion of the year that it takes to collect the payback = 0.3114754098360656 (equivilent to 31.1475% of the year) , then multiply 0.3114754098360656 by 12 months to give you the number of months it takes within the year = 3.737704918032787 or 3.74 months = 4 months. Answer = 2 years 4 months.

mentorkeith

To simplify:
£190 divide by £610 multiply by 12. Easier to do this way because you don't need to retype part of the calculation but do all 3 one after the other on your calculator to give you 3.74 months

SammyRPA

So glad this question was asked I couldn't get it either ha!

matty ellis

Hi thanks for the help and sorry for the late reply, I passed my cost and revenue exam

Jo Clark

Congratulations matty