CASE – 3 CHOOSING BETWEEN
PROJECTS IN ABC COMPANY
ABC Company, has three projects to
choose from. The Finance Manager, the operations manager are discussing and
they are not able to come to a proper decision. Then they are meeting a
consultant to get proper advice. As a consultant, what advice you will give?
The cash flows are as follows. All
amounts are in lakhs of Rupees.
Project 1:
Duration 5 Years
Beginning cash outflow = Rs. 100
Cash inflows (at the end of the
year)
Yr. 1 – Rs 30; Yr. 2 – Rs 30; Yr. 3
– Rs 30; Yr.4 – 10; Yr.5 – 10
Project 2:
Duration 5 Years
Beginning Cash outflow Rs. 3763
Cash inflows (at the end of the
year)
Yr. 1 – 200; Yr. 2 – 600; Yr. 3 –
1000; Yr. 4 – 1000; Yr. 5 – 2000.
Project 3:
Duration 15 Years
Beginning Cash Outflow – Rs. 100
Cash Inflows (at the end of the
year)
Yrs. 1 to 10 – Rs. 20 (for 10
continuous years)
Yrs. 11 to 15 – Rs. 10 (For the
next 5 years)
Question:
If the cost of capital is 8%, which
of the 3 projects should the ABC Company accept?
Raj,
who was in charge production felt that there are many problems to be attended
to. But Quality Control was the main problem, he thought, as he found there
were more complaints and litigations as compared to last year. With the demand
increasing, he does not want to take any chances.
So he went down
to assembly line, but was greeted by an unfamiliar face. He introduced himself.
Raj: I am
in charge of checking the components, which we use, when we assemble the
machines for customers. For most of the components, suppliers are very reliable
and we assume that there will not be any problem. When we generally test the
end product, we don’t have failures.
Namdeo: I
am Namdeo. I was in another dept. and has been transferred recently to this
dept.
Raj: Recently we have been having
problems, and there has been some complaint or other about the machines we have
supplied. I am worried and would like to check the components used. I would
like to avoid lot of expensive rework.
Namdeo:
But it would be very expensive to test every one of them. It will take at least
half an hour for each machine. I neither have the staff nor the time. It will
be rather pointless as majority of them will pass the test.
Raj:
There has been more demand than supply for these machines in last 2 years. We
have been buying many components from many suppliers. We have been producing
more with extra shifts. We are trying to capture the market and increase our
market share.
Namdeo:
We order for components from different places, and sometimes we do not have
time to check all. There is a time lag between order and supply of components,
and we cannot wait as production will stop. We use whatever comes soon as we
want to complete our orders.
Raj: Oh!
Obviously we need some kind of checking. Some sampling technique to check the
quality of the components. We need to get a sample from each shipment from our
component suppliers. But I do not know how many we should test.
Namdeo:
We should ask somebody from our statistics dept. to attend to this problem.
As a
Statistician, advice what kind of Sampling schemes can we consider, and what
factors will influence choice of scheme. What are the questions we should ask
Mr. Namdeo, who works in the assembly line?
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