Accounting 9706 · AS & A Level · Investment appraisal

Investment appraisal — practice question

Consult Source B2 in the insert.
(a(i))[1]

Calculate the total revenue for each year in the original plan.

(a(ii))[1]

Calculate the total revenue for each year under the revised plan.

(b(i))[2]

Calculate the total variable cost for each year in the original plan.

(b(ii))[2]

Calculate the total variable cost for each year under the revised plan.

(c)[8]

Calculate the rise in NPV that would result if the revised plan were chosen instead of the original.

(d)[3]

Calculate the total number of tickets Samir would need to sell in year 1 with the revised plan so that the rise in revenue matched the additional fixed costs.

(e)[2]

Assess any worries Samir may have about the revised plan.

(f)[3]

Advise Samir whether he ought to implement the revised plan or not. Justify your answer.

(g)[3]

Explain how sensitivity analysis is useful in investment appraisal.

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