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Finanças. October 19. Topics covered. Inflation in capital budgeting Interest rate and inflation rate Discounting with inflation Investment with unequal lives. Inflation and capital budgeting. Interest rates and inflation
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Finanças October 19
Topics covered • Inflation in capital budgeting • Interest rate and inflation rate • Discounting with inflation • Investment with unequal lives
Inflation and capital budgeting • Interest rates and inflation • The effect of inflation: The time value of money is deflated by inflation. • Real interest rate vs. nominal interest rate
Inflation and capital budgeting • Approximation • The approximation is reasonably accurate when the interest rate and the inflation rate are low. • Example. Monarchy of Gerberovia has a norminal interest rate of 300% and inflation rate of 280%.
Cash flows and Discount rates • There must be consistency between cash flows and discount rates • Real cash flows should be discounted at • Norminal cash flows should be discounted at • Notice the treatment of depreciations in the two approaches
Cash flows and Discount rates: An example Inflation rate =10% Norminal rate =15.5%
Investments of unequal lives • So far, the NPV rule has been our rule-of-thumb. • However, there are situations when the NPV rule is not sufficient. • E.g. when investments under decision have different lengths of life.
Investments of unequal lives Discount rate=0.1
Investments of unequal lives • The NPV rule does not consider the time that each machine will last.