| UNDERSTANDING HEALTHCARE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | ||||||||
| Chapter 12 Project Risk Analysis | ||||||||
| PROBLEM 4 | ||||||||
| The managers of United Medtronics are evaluating the following four projects for the coming budget | ||||||||
| period. The firm’s corporate cost of capital is 14 percent. | ||||||||
| Project | Cost | IRR | ||||||
| A | $15,000 | 17% | ||||||
| B | $15,000 | 16% | ||||||
| C | $12,000 | 15% | ||||||
| D | $20,000 | 13% | ||||||
| a. What is the firm’s optimal capital budget? | ||||||||
| b. Now, suppose Medtronic’s managers want to consider differential risk in the capital budgeting process. | ||||||||
| Project A has average risk, B has below average risk, C has above average risk, and D has average | ||||||||
| risk. What is the firm’s optimal capital budget when differential risk is considered? (Hint: The firm’s | ||||||||
| managers lower the IRR of high risk projects by 3 percentage points and raise the IRR of low risk | ||||||||
| projects by the same amount.) | ||||||||
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