Discounted Payback Period – Graham Incorporated uses discounted payback period for projects

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Discounted Payback Period – Graham Incorporated uses discounted payback period for projects under $25,000 and has a cut off period of 4 years for these small value projects. Two projects, R and S are under consideration. The anticipated cash flows for these two projects are listed below. If Graham Incorporated uses an 8% discount rate on these projects are they accepted or rejected? If they use 12% discount rate? If they use a 16% discount rate? Why is it necessary to only look at the first four years of the projects’ cash flows?

Cash Flows Project R Project S
Initial Cost $24,000 $18,000
Cash flow year one $6,000 $9,000
Cash flow year two $8,000 $6,000
Cash flow year three $10,000 $6,000
Cash flow year four $12,000 $3,000