This document discusses capital rationing, which refers to choosing investment projects under financial constraints when there are more options available than funds. It outlines factors that can lead to capital rationing like management restrictions or imperfect capital markets. There are two types: soft rationing imposed by management, and hard rationing limited by external sources. Capital rationing involves ranking projects by profitability measures, selecting the highest ranked until funds are used up. The document provides an example of allocating $13 million between 5 projects ranked by profitability index.

1. Capital Rationing
Prepared By:
Mohammed Jasir PV
Asst. Professor
MIIMS, Puthanangadi
Contact: 9605 693 266

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

10. Project
Required
initial
investment
Present
value of
inflows
Profitability
Index
Ranking
Apportioning
available
capital
D 4,00,000 4,90,000 1.225 1 4,00,000
B 6,00,000 7,00,000 1.16667 2 6,00,000
A 2,00,000 2,20,000 1.1 3 2,00,000
E 2,00,000 2,10,000 1.05 4
1/2th of
Project E
C 1,00,000 92,000 0.92 5

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

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