Week 8 Discussion Response- Account for Managment Decision Making

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Capital Budgeting Methods in Managerial Decision Making

Having analyzed the preliminary cost and market research, it is important that The Better Chair Company determine whether the full-scale production of the Ottoman line will yield rewarding long-term returns. The company must investigate capital budgeting techniques, including Net Present Value (NPV), Payback, Accounting Rate of Return (ARR), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR), to establish the financial feasibility and profitability of strategic investment decisions.

The NPV offers the best technique for determining the feasibility of a long-term investment. It demonstrates that the benefits of a project surpass return rates the costs required for a firm by converting the anticipated project’s cash inflows and outflows to their current value. The positive NPV shows that the program will increase the company's worth and improve the shareholder wealth by making returns exceeding the cost of capital to the company (Walden University, LLC, 2024a). This technique combines profitability, risk, and monetary value of assets over time into a single reliable decision measure of strategic planning.

Despite their simplicity, the Payback and ARR techniques have weaknesses in the fact that fails to account for monetary time value. Payback is concerned only with the recovery period, whereas ARR is centered on fiscal profitability rather than on cash flows, which are able to distort the actual performance (Walden University, LLC, 2024b). The IRR method includes the use of discounting; however, it might be inconsistent where the projects vary in size or with changing cash flows.

The time value techniques, like NPV and IRR, are more precise when estimating capital projects compared to a non-time value (ARR and Payback) (Franklin et al., 2019). Of these, the NPV is the most suitable methodology to use in The Better Chair Company, as it puts all the aspects of risk and returns in one measurable framework. This method ensures reasonable allocation of capital that promotes long-term financial growth, stability in operations, and added value to the organization (Walden University, LLC, 2024c).

References

Franklin, M., Graybeal, P., & Cooper, D. (2019). 11.5 Compare and contrast non-time value-based methods and time value-based methods in capital investment decisions. In Principles of accounting, volume 2: Managerial accounting. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/principles-managerial-accounting/pages/11-5-compare-and-contrast-non-time-value-based-methods-and-time-value-based-methods-in-capital-investment-decisions

Walden University, LLC. (2024a). How to calculate NPV and IRR [PDF]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com

Walden University, LLC. (2024b). ARR/ROI [PDF]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com

Walden University, LLC. (2024c). Net present value, accounting rate of return, internal rate of return, and payback to make investment decisions [PDF]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com