Consider an investment that costs $400 and pays $100 per year forever. We use a 20 percent discount rate on this type of investment.

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Consider an investment that costs $400 and pays $100 per year forever. We use a 20 percent discount rate on this type of investment. What is the ordinary payback? What is the discounted payback? What is the NPV?

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The NPV and ordinary payback are easy to calculate in this case because the investment is a perpetuity. The present value of the cash flows is $100/.2=$500, so the NPV is $500-400=$100. The ordinary payback is obviously four years.
To get the discounted payback, we need to find the number of years such that a $100 annuity has a present value of $400 at 20 percent. In other words, the present value annuity factor is $400/100=4, and the interest rate is 20 percent per period; so what’s the number of periods? If we solve for the number of periods, we find that the answer is a little less than nine years, so this is the discounted payback.

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