General Foods - Project Super
Summary
Depending on a company’s specific situation, different methods for evaluating project returns are appropriate. If we were evaluating a choice of (A, B, C, D) and there is unlimited investment resources, then the answer is to simply pick out all of the positive NPV projects. However, if there are limited resources, then the right answer is to optimize based on cashflows. The current situation is similar. General Foods needs to develop a method of evaluating projects that takes into consideration the potential limitation of resources, now and in the future, and generate the highest ROE for equity investors. Neither the incremental analysis nor the fully allocated analysis presented in the case is quite the optimal method. An alternative method that combines the attractive elements of both would give us a more optimal solution, and would probably satisfy the proponents of both.
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General Foods has been steady growing over the last ten years.......
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