The cash flows for two mutually exclusive projects with different lives are given below:3
The opportunity cost of capital for project A is 10%, but project B is much riskier and has a 40% cost of capital.
a) What is the simple NPV of each project?
b) What is the NPV(N, co) of each project?
c) What is the annual equivalent value [see Eq. (3.5)] of each project?
d) Which project should be accepted? Why?