The following data are accumulated by Watershed Inc. in evaluating two competing capital investment proposals: Project A Project Z Amount of investment $55,000 $50,000 Useful life 12 years 15 years Estimated residual value $5,000 $6,000 Estimated total income over the useful life $57,600 $63,000 Determine the expected average rate of return for each project.

Project                            Average rate of return

A                                                 16%

Z                                                    15%

Explanation:

The average rate of return (ARR) is the proportion of the average investment that is earned as profit.

Average rate of return(ARR) = average operating income/ Average investment

Project A=

Average income = 57,600/12 = 4800

Average investment = (55,000 + 5,000)/2 = 30000

ARR = 4,800/30,000 × 100 = 16%

Projecr Z

Average income = 63,000/15= 4200

Aveage investment = (50,000 + 6,000)/2= 28,000

ARR = 4,200/28,000× 100 = 15%

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

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