Compute the payback statistic for Project A if the appropriate cost of capital is 9 percent and the maximum allowable payback period is four years. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Simple Payback period is 2.52 years.

Discounted Payback period is 2.97 years

Explanation:

Payback period is the number of years that a project takes to recover the project's initial investment.

Simple Payback

Project A                                                                                          

Time:                0            1            2            3             4              5

Cash flow    –$1,500   $550    $630     $620       $400       $200

Payback period = 550/550 + 630/630 + (1500-550-630)/620 = 2.52 years

Payback period = Approximately 2.52 years

In simple term it will take 2.52 years to recover the initial investment.

Discounted payback

Project A                                                                                          

Time:                0            1            2            3             4              5

Cash flow    –$1,500   $550    $630     $620       $400       $200

PV @ 9%      –$1,500   $505    $530     $479       $283        $130

Payback period = 505/505 + 530/530 + (1500-505-530)/479 = 2.97 years

Payback period = Approximately 2.97 years

It will take about 2.97 years to recover the initial investment of $1,500 using discount rate of 9%  

Labor

Explanation:

As a result of capital investments flowing, the labor in both the high wage countries and the low wage peripheral regions will shift due to interactions between the two labor systems.

The lower wage peripheral regions for instance, will see a rise in wages paid to their workers on account of the higher capital investment and people from these areas will move to the higher wage countries where they will be paid less which would reduce the wages paid in these higher wage countries.