Net Present Value
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One potential criticism of the net present value technique is that there is an implicit assumption that this technique assumes the intermediate cash flows of the project are reinvested at the required return. In other words, if you calculate the future value of the intermediate cash flows to the end of the project at the required return, sum the future values, and find the net present value of the two cash flows, you will get the same net present value as the original calculation. If the reinvestment rate used to calculate the future value is lower than the required return, the net present value will decrease. How would you evaluate this criticism?
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This is a true statement. The NPV method assumed the reinvestment rate to be the same as the cost of capital. However, this is not really a serious drawback of the NPV method. This is because an analyst can easily adjust the NPV method to use different reinvestment rates for different periods. If the reinvestment rate ...
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