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Capital Budgeting: Financial Appraisal of Investment Projects

Don Dayananda, Richard Irons, Steve Harrison, John Herbohn, Patrick Rowland

Chapter 10

Case study in financial modelling and simulation of a forestry investment - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

Problem 1

What are some of the difficulties in establishing cash flow estimates for long-lived forestry projects?

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Problem 2

What methods are available to allow for risk in the evaluation of forestry projects? Which of these methods are preferred?

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Problem 3

In Example 10.1, the land used for the plantations was made available by a local council for FVC Ltd to use at no cost (see Box 1). Assume now that FVC Ltd had to pay rental on the land from the council at the rate of $4 \%$ of the land value per annum.
(a) Using Workbook 10.1, recompute the NPV assuming that FVC Ltd had to pay an annual land rental and that the land value on average was $$\$ 2,000$$ per ha.
(b) What effect has payment had on IRR?
(c) Using the Goal Seek function of Excel, calculate the final stumpage price that FVC Ltd must receive in order to achieve an NPV of 0.

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