Hi, I did not add the £100,000 in as it did not state if it would be disposed or the contract renewed. Unless you def know it was being disposed of. By looking at people's replies on the pther threads i think everyone is 50/5 on this question. Maybe they will mark both as correct as it could have been worded better.
Hi, I did not add the £100,000 in as it did not state if it would be disposed or the contract renewed. Unless you def know it was being disposed of. By looking at people's replies on the pther threads i think everyone is 50/5 on this question. Maybe they will mark both as correct as it could have been worded better.
Finally, i've found somebody who thinks the same as me! I left it out because they said the contract will be renewed or disposed...it never actually stated which one so surely the £100000 cannot be included until that point
Hi everyone. I reckon you have to include it because you're always working on a worst case scenario. if you assume the contract will be renewed you'd have to go beyond year 3 and continue with the estimated cashflows. good luck anyway, don't think it'll be a huge blow if you haven't included it.:001_unsure:
I don't think you can assume it will be renewed -- but you're right it wasn't as clear as it should have been. Although all of the people in my group did add it.
There shouldn't be any grey areas in these questions.
I don't think you can assume it will be renewed -- but you're right it wasn't as clear as it should have been. Although all of the people in my group did add it.
There shouldn't be any grey areas in these questions.
I used those parts for my commercial factors...
how likely it is that the contract wil be renewed and if not how achievable is the £100000 sale of disposal
What did you put here? Normally the investment is the introduction of a new product so this was difficult to answer
I also mentioned that you don't know if it will be renewed and this will affect the numbers. But ... meh who knows, we're simply gonna have to wait until the answers are put online in 2 months aren't we?
If you included the disposal when calculating the third year, what would your answer be? 290 or 190 for the third year? I re-read my answer and I couldn't figure out how I got the answer I got? I don't know what I gave now - it was in that blur when almost every question I rechecked was wrong!! What were the sales revenue and the cost figures for the third year?
Yea i added the 100k aswell as i thought they were asking about the current contract and i felt that an extended contract was something that could possible happen in the future. Starting to wonder now though with so many people giving different answers
I got NPV of 70 something (I think) and a payback period of 1.9 years!! Really worried now about this question! Can't believe its so long until the answers are up on the site!
I agree with Hunnie and others that left the £100,000 out. At the time of producing the forecast we wouldn't know if the contract was to be extended or the kit disposed of, so I left it out. Hope this is right. :001_unsure:
I included it as a sort of residual value, i wasn't sure why it would be there if we weren't to include, and as the investment was a 3 year and no more, i assumed the contract would be 3 years and that was it.
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I think this is wrong but as long as the calculations are correct I dont think we will lose many marks for that... hopefully
I think my NPV was +79 or something
Finally, i've found somebody who thinks the same as me! I left it out because they said the contract will be renewed or disposed...it never actually stated which one so surely the £100000 cannot be included until that point
Either way, it's just one mistake.
I done that too
You're working out how good the contract is -- not how future contracts will perform.
Anyway, either way, I'm not worried.
I'm sure it was 79.
The annoying thing is that you practice all of these things, and then when you have done the exam are wondering if you've done it right.
So I'm now pretty sure that you have to add that 100k.
In essence, it's the difference between 9/10 and 10/10. Hardly worrying guys.
Only if the contract isn't renewed though...
The contract may continue, in which case the £100000 disposal would not happen. Badly worded question !
There shouldn't be any grey areas in these questions.
I used those parts for my commercial factors...
how likely it is that the contract wil be renewed and if not how achievable is the £100000 sale of disposal
What did you put here? Normally the investment is the introduction of a new product so this was difficult to answer
Was the initial capex in brackets? I think it was (600).
I added the Disposal as income and got quite a high NPV.
maybe a badly designed question.