HCM565 Module 4 CT Chapter 11 Problem 1 Winston Clinic is evaluating a project that costs $52,125 and has expected net cash flows of $12,000 per year for eight years. The first inflow occurs one year after the cost outflow, and the project has a cost of capital of 12 percent. a. What is the project's payback? b. What is the project's NPV? Its IRR? c. Is the project financially acceptable? Explain your answer. Chapter 11 Problem 3 Capitol Health Plans, Inc., is evaluating two different methods for providing home health services to its members. Both methods involve contracting out for services, and the health outcomes and revenues are not affected by the method chosen. Therefore, the incremental cash flows for the decision are all outflows. Here are the projected flows: Year Method A Method B 0 -$300,000 -$120,000 1 -$66,000 -$96,000 2 -$66,000 -$96,000 3 -$66,000 -$96,000 4 -$66,000 -$96,000 5 -$66,000 -$96,000 a. What is each alternative's IRR? b. If the cost of capital for both methods is 9 percent, which method should be chosen? Why? Chapter 11 Problem 5 Assume that you are the CFO at Porter Memorial Hospital. The CEO has asked you to analyze two proposed capital investments: Project X and Project Y. Each project requires a net investment outlay of $10,000, and the cost of capital for each project is 12 percent. The project's expected net cash flows are as follows: Year Project X Project Y 0 -$10,000 -$10,000 1 $6,500 $3,000 2 $3,000 $3,000 3 $3,000 $3,000 4 $1,000 $3,000 a. Calculate each project's payback period, net present value (NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR). b. Which project (or projects) is financially acceptable? Explain your answer. Chapter 11 Problem 7 California Health Center, a for-profit hospital, is evaluating the purchase of new diagnostic equipment. The equipment, which costs $600,000, has an expected life of five years and an estimated pretax salvage value of $200,000 at that time. The equipment is expected to be used 15 times a day for 250 days a year for each year of the project's life. On average, each procedure is expected to generate $80 in collections, which is net of bad debt losses and contractual allowances, in its first year of use. Thus, net revenues for Year 1 are estimated at 15 X 250 X $80 = $300,000. Labor and maintenance costs are expected to be $100,000 during the first year of operation, while utilities will cost another $10,000 and cash overhead will increase by $5,000 in Year 1. The cost for expendable supplies is expected to average $5 per procedure during the first year. All costs and revenues, except depreciation, are expected to increase at a 5 percent inflation rate after the first year. The equipment falls into the MACRS five-year class for tax depreciation and hence is subject to the following depreciation allowances: Year Allowance 1 0.2 2 0.32 3 0.19 4 0.12 5 0.11 6 0.06 The hospital's tax rate is 40 percent, and its corporate cost of capital is 10 percent. a. Estima ...

1. HCM565
Module 4 CT
Chapter 11 Problem 1
Winston Clinic is evaluating a project that costs $52,125 and
has expected net cash flows of $12,000 per year for eight years.
The first inflow occurs one year after the cost outflow, and the
project has a cost of capital of 12 percent.
a. What is the project's payback?
b. What is the project's NPV? Its IRR?
c. Is the project financially acceptable? Explain your answer.
Chapter 11 Problem 3
Capitol Health Plans, Inc., is evaluating two different methods
for providing home health services to its members. Both
methods involve contracting out for services, and the health
outcomes and revenues are not affected by the method chosen.
Therefore, the incremental cash flows for the decision are all
outflows.
Here are the projected flows:
Year
Method A
Method B
0
-$300,000
-$120,000
1
-$66,000
-$96,000
2

2. -$66,000
-$96,000
3
-$66,000
-$96,000
4
-$66,000
-$96,000
5
-$66,000
-$96,000
a. What is each alternative's IRR?
b. If the cost of capital for both methods is 9 percent, which
method should be chosen? Why?
Chapter 11 Problem 5
Assume that you are the CFO at Porter Memorial Hospital. The
CEO has asked you to analyze two proposed capital
investments: Project X and Project Y. Each project requires a
net investment outlay of $10,000, and the cost of capital for
each project is 12 percent. The project's expected net cash flows
are as follows:
Year
Project X
Project Y
0
-$10,000
-$10,000
1
$6,500
$3,000
2
$3,000

3. $3,000
3
$3,000
$3,000
4
$1,000
$3,000
a. Calculate each project's payback period, net present value
(NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR).
b. Which project (or projects) is financially acceptable? Explain
your answer.
Chapter 11 Problem 7
California Health Center, a for-profit hospital, is evaluating the
purchase of new diagnostic equipment. The equipment, which
costs $600,000, has an expected life of five years and an
estimated pretax salvage value of $200,000 at that time. The
equipment is expected to be used 15 times a day for 250 days a
year for each year of the project's life. On average, each
procedure is expected to generate $80 in collections, which is
net of bad debt losses and contractual allowances, in its first
year of use. Thus, net revenues for Year 1 are estimated at 15 X
250 X $80 = $300,000.
Labor and maintenance costs are expected to be $100,000
during the first year of operation, while utilities will cost
another $10,000 and cash overhead will increase by $5,000 in
Year 1. The cost for expendable supplies is expected to average
$5 per procedure during the first year. All costs and revenues,
except depreciation, are expected to increase at a 5 percent
inflation rate after the first year.
The equipment falls into the MACRS five-year class for tax
depreciation and hence is subject to the following depreciation

4. allowances:
Year
Allowance
1
0.2
2
0.32
3
0.19
4
0.12
5
0.11
6
0.06
The hospital's tax rate is 40 percent, and its corporate cost of
capital is 10 percent.
a. Estimate the project's net cash flows over its five-year
estimated life.
b. What are the project's NPV and IRR? (Assume that the
project has average risk.)
(Hint: Use the following format as a guide.)
Year

5. 0
1
2
3
4
5
Equipment cost
Net revenues
Less:
Labor/maintenance costs
Utilities costs

6. Supplies
Incremental overhead
Depreciation
Operating income

7. Taxes
Net operating income
Plus: Depreciation
Plus: After-tax equipment salvage value*
Net cash flow

8. *
Pretax equipment salvage value
MACRS equipment salvage value
Difference

9. Taxes
After-tax equipment salvage value
Chapter 12 Problem 3
Consider the project contained in Problem 7 in Chapter 11
(California Health Center).
a. Perform a sensitivity analysis to see how NPV is affected by
changes in the number of procedures per day, average collection
amount, and salvage value. Remember supplies vary with
number of procedures.
b. Conduct a scenario analysis. Suppose that the hospital's staff
concluded that the three most uncertain variables were number
of procedures per day, average collection amount, and the
equipment's salvage value. Furthermore, the following data
were developed:

10. Equipment
Number of
Average
Salvage
Scenario
Probability
Procedures
Collection
Value
Worst
0.25
10
$60
$100,000
Most likely
0.50
15
$80
$200,000
Best
0.25
20
$100
$300,000
c. Finally, assume that California Health Center's average
project has a coefficient of variation of NPV in the range of 1.0
- 2.0. (Hint: Coefficient of variation is defined as the standard
deviation of NPV divided by the expected NPV.) The hospital
adjusts for risk by adding or subtracting 3 percentage points to
its 10 percent corporate cost of capital. After adjusting for

11. differential risk, is the project still profitable?
d. What type of risk was measured and accounted for in Parts b.
and c.? Should this be of concern to the hospital's managers?
Chapter 12 Problem 5
Allied Managed Care Company is evaluating two different
computer systems for handling provider claims. There are no
incremental revenues attached to the projects, so the decision
will be made on the basis of the present value of costs. Allied's
corporate cost of capital is 10 percent. Here are the net cash
flow estimates in thousands of dollars:
Year
System X
System Y
0
-$500
-$1,000
1
-$500
-$300
2
-$500
-$300
3
-$500
-$300
a. Assume initially that the systems both have average risk.
Which one should be chosen?
b. Assume that System X is judged to have high risk. Allied
accounts for differential risk by adjusting its corporate cost of
capital up or down by 2 percentage points. Which system should
be chosen?

12. Chapter 12 Problem 10
Michigan Home Health is considering opening an office in a
new market. The organization has identified the number of
home visits, revenue per home visit, and the level of fixed costs
of the new office as being the major sources of uncertainty in
the investment decision. To get a better understanding of the
sensitivity of the new office NPV to these variables, the
following data have been assembled:
Change
NPV
from
Number
Revenue
Level of
base
of home
per home
fixed
case
visits
visit
costs
-30%
-$814
-$57
$82
-20%
-$515
-$11
$82
-10%
-$216
$36

13. $82
0%
$82
$82
$82
10%
$381
$129
$82
20%
$680
$176
$82
30%
$979
$222
$82
Construct a graph to show the sensitivity of the new office NPV
to each variable.
Final Presentation
Student Name
English 107
Thesis Statement
“This should actually be a quote of your full thesis statement.”
Problem
First

14. Solution
Second