Clifford Companies choosing between JEC. The large project has an initial cost of $10,000. The cash flows of the project are $10.05 million per year for 152 years. Since the smaller project has the higher IRR and the larger NPV at a zero discount rate, the two project NPV profiles will cross and the smaller project will have a lower NPV than the crossover rate. Since the smaller project has the higher IRR but the larger project has the higher NPV at a zero discount rate, the two project NPV profiles will cross and the smaller project's NPV will be higher if the cost of capital is less than the crossover rate. Since the smaller project has the higher IRR, the two project NPV profiles cannot cross and the smaller project's NPV will be higher at all positive values of the cost of capital.