1What is the capital investment process?
2Why does money have a time value
3What is the difference between compounding and discounting
Compounding - A sum invested today will earn interest. Compunding calculates the future (or terminal) value of the sum invested for a number of years. The sum is increased over the number of years it earns interest
Discounting - Considers a sum receivable in the future and establishes it equivelent value today

4How do you calculate compound interest
5How do you discount a future cashflow to present value (without the PV table)
6What is an annuity
A contant annual cashflow for a number of years
7How do you calculate the present value of an annuity
8What is a perpetuity
An annual cashflow that occurs forever
9How do you calculate the net present value of a perpetuity
the r in this formula represents the cost of capital or required return expressed as a decimal ie 0.09 for 9%

10How do you calculate the present value of an advanced perpetuity

11How do you calculate advanced annuities

if an advanced annuity is for 5 yrs starting now, then the 5th payment is in 4 yrs, so you use the 4 yr annuity factor but add on 1 to account for the first payment at T0

12How do you calculate delayed annuities
Find the normal annuity factor (cumulative PV) then find the delayed annuity factor (PV table number of years of the delay) multiply them together then use this to multiply against your annual cashflow

13How do you calculate delayed perpetuities
14What are the capital investment techniques
15What is Net present Value
The SUM of the projected DISCOUNTED cash inflows and outflows attributable to a capital investment
16How do you decide wether to accept a project based on NPV
Because the cost of capital % is used to calculate, if the answer is 0 then the project earns the required return

17What are the advantages and disadvantsages of NPV
19How do you calculate IRR
20What are the advantages and disadvantages of IRR
22How do you calculate MIRR
23What are capital asset replacement decisions
24How do you calculate the equivalent annual cost for a capital asset replacement decision
25What is capital rationing
26What is the profitability index
It gives NPV per £1 invested. It is used to rank investment opportunities when the projects are divisible
27How do you calculate profitablility index
28What is the Discounted Payback Profitability Index (DPBI) and how do you calculate it
29What are some of the real options when considering projects to invest in
30What is a post completion audit of projects
31How do you calculate the payback period
32What are the advantages and disadvantages of the payback period
33How do you calculate discounted payback
Same as payback but you discount each inflow before calculating

34How do you calculate accounting rate of return (ARR)
35How do you calculate average value of investment for the ARR calculation
36What are the advantages and disadvantages of accounting rate of return (ARR)
37How do you calculate the present value of a tax allowance
First calcuate the depreciation based on instructions
Calculate the tax allowance on that depreciation by multiplying with the tax rate
Multiply the tax allowance amount by the dicount factor (cost of capital) for that year

38How do you calculate woring capital cashflow
39How do you calculate PV when there is inflation
40How do you calculate the NPV of an investment using the money method and the real method
41How do you calculate the real rate of return using the cost of capital and the rate of inflation
need to do minus one then times 100 after the division

42How do you calculate the sensitivity margin of a project
44How do you calculate the IRR of an annuity?
Because an annuity has equal cash inflows you can shortcut the formula

45How do you calculate the IRR of a perpetuity