What’s on the Investment Appraisal poster
A 4-row table: Method · Decision rule · Weakness.
Each answers a different question about the same cash flows.
- Payback — Shorter is better — Ignores everything after payback
- ARR — Above a target % — Uses profit, not cash
- NPV — Positive means accept — Needs a discount rate
- IRR — Above cost of capital — Misleads on mutually exclusive projects
NPV and IRR can disagree when projects differ in size or timing. When they do, follow NPV.
Questions about the Investment Appraisal poster
- What’s on the Investment Appraisal (Business finance) poster?
- A 4-row table: Method · Decision rule · Weakness. Each answers a different question about the same cash flows. Payback — Shorter is better — Ignores everything after payback; ARR — Above a target % — Uses profit, not cash; NPV — Positive means accept — Needs a discount rate; IRR — Above cost of capital — Misleads on mutually exclusive projects. NPV and IRR can disagree when projects differ in size or timing. When they do, follow NPV.
- Who is the Investment Appraisal (Business finance) poster for?
- Investment Appraisal (Business finance) belongs to the Business & Management section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning business finance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Investment Appraisal (Business finance) poster?
- NPV is the theoretically correct one. The others are used because they are easier to explain. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Investment Appraisal (Business finance) belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Investment Appraisal (Business finance)?
- The Balance Sheet, Break-Even and Budgeting sit alongside Investment Appraisal (Business finance) in the Business & Management section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Balance SheetBreak-EvenBudgeting
- Is the Investment Appraisal (Business finance) poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Investment Appraisal (Business finance) downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Business & Management section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Investment Appraisal (Business finance) poster print at?
- Investment Appraisal (Business finance) is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Investment Appraisal (Business finance) loses nothing.Printing guide
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