2. Capital Rationing
Related to Capital Budgeting
Related to Investment
When
More investment options are available
But limited resources are available (Shortage of Finance)
Need to choose the best options
Helps to prioritise the options based on profitability
Helping to select the appropriate projects
3. Capital Rationing
• Capital rationing situation refers to the choice of investment
proposal under financial constraints.
• Capital rationing is applied when a firm has a number of
acceptable investment proposal but the resource available
is restricted to certain extend
4. Capital Rationing providing answers to
The required fund?
Available Fund?
How to assign the available fund?
5. Steps in Capital Rationing
1. Ranking projects (By use of any profitability measures)
(NPV,IRR,PI)
2. Selecting projects in descanting order of profitability until
the budget exhausted
6. Factors Leading to Capital Rationing
Internal Factors
Restriction by management
Top mgt. Philosophy towards capital
spending
Fear about current commitments
Fund from current operations
Feasibility of acquiring new fund
External Factors
External Factors
Imperfection of capital market
Govt. Regulations
7. Types of capital rationing
1. Soft capital rationing
It is when restriction is imposed by the Management (Internal
Factors)
2. Hard capital Rationing
It is when capital infusion is limited by external sources
(External Factors)
8. Advantages of capital rationing
1. Budget
2. No wastage
3. Fewer projects
4. Higher returns
5. More stability
9. The required initial investment and Present value of inflows in respect of 5
projects (A,B,C,D, and E) is given above. The total funds available is Rs 13,00,000.
Determine the optimal combination of projects under profitability index
Project
Required initial
investment
Present value of
inflows
A 2,00,000 2,20,000
B 6,00,000 7,00,000
C 1,00,000 92,000
D 4,00,000 4,90,000
E 2,00,000 2,10,000
11. Tate Company, a fast growing plastics company with a cost of capital of 10%, is
confronted with six projects competing for its fixed budget of $250,000. The initial
investment and IRR for each project are shown below:
Capital Rationing