Exam AHM-520 Topic 3 Question 85 Discussion

In order to print all of its forms in-house, the Prism health plan isconsidering the purchase of 10 new printers at a total cost of $30,000. Prismestimates that the proposed printers have a useful life of 5 years. Under itscurrent system, Prism spends $10,000 a year to have forms printed by a localprinting company. Assume that Prism selects a 15% discount rate based onits weighted-average costs of capital. The cash inflows for each year,discounted to their present value, are shown in the following chart:

Prism will use both the payback method and the discounted payback methodto analyze the worthiness of this potential capital investment. Prism's decisionrule is to accept all proposed capital projects that have payback periods offour years or less.
Now assume that Prism decides to use the net present value (NPV) method toevaluate this potential investment's worthiness and that Prism will accept theproject if the project's NPV is greater than $4,000. Using the NPV method,Prism would correctly conclude that this project should be