Define Benefit Cost Ratio or Profitability Index

Question

Briefly describe the term Benefit Cost Ratio (or B/C Ratio) or Profitability Index (or PI)?

Answer 1

Profitability index (or PI) is also named as profit investment ratio (or PIR) and as well named as value investment ratio (or VIR) that tells that a proposed project will have the ratio of induce to investment. It is like a tool that is employed for ranking projects and it permits quantifying the amount of value formed per unit of investment. If the value of profitability index is less than 1 then admit the project and if it is greater than one then refuse the project. Another way to compute the profitability index is prospect cash flows divided by the initial investment.