{"id":12212,"date":"2021-10-24T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T19:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.5paisa.com\/finschool\/?post_type=finance-dictionary&#038;p=12212"},"modified":"2021-12-08T08:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:09:31","slug":"what-is-npv","status":"publish","type":"finance-dictionary","link":"https:\/\/www.5paisa.com\/finschool\/finance-dictionary\/what-is-npv\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Present Value (NPV)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12212\" class=\"elementor elementor-12212\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4a41e694 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4a41e694\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31b23400\" data-id=\"31b23400\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12e4b334 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"12e4b334\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What Is NPV?<\/span><\/strong><\/h5><p>The Net Present Value (NPV) is a method that is primarily used for financial analysis in determining the feasibility of investment in a project or a business. It is the present value of future cash flows compared with the initial investments.\u00a0<\/p><p>As an organization expands, it needs to take important decisions which involve immense capital investment.<\/p><p>Every investment would have cash outflows and cash inflows. There is the cash that is required to make the investment and (hopefully) the return.<\/p><p>In order to see whether the cash outflows are less than the cash inflows (i.e., the investment earns a positive return), the investor aggregates the cash flows. Since cash flows occur over a period of time, the investor knows that due to the time value of money, each cash flow has a certain value today. Thus, in order to sum the cash inflows and outflows, each cash flow must be discounted to a common point in time.<\/p><h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Calculation For Net Present Value<\/strong><\/span><\/h5><p>The net present value (NPV) is simply the sum of the present values (PVs) and all the outflows and inflows:<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NPV<\/strong> = PV <sub>I<\/sub><sub>nflows<\/sub>+ PV <sub>Outflows<\/sub><\/p><p>where,<\/p><p>PV = Present Value<\/p><p>Don\u2019t forget that inflows and outflows have opposite signs; outflows are negative.<\/p><p>Also recall that Present Value (PV) is found by the formula:\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> PV<\/strong> = FV(1+i)tPV=FV(1+i)t<\/p><p>where,<\/p><p>FV is the future value (size of each cash flow),<\/p><p>i is the discount rate, and<\/p><p>t is the number of periods between the present and future.<\/p><p>The PV of multiple cash flows is simply the sum of the PVs for each cash flow.<\/p><p>The sign of NPV can explain a lot about whether the investment is good or not:<\/p><ul><li><p><strong>NPV &gt; 0:<\/strong> The PV of the inflows is greater than the PV of the outflows. The money earned on the investment is worth more today than the costs, therefore, it is a good investment.<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>NPV = 0:<\/strong> The PV of the inflows is equal to the PV of the outflows. There is no difference in value between the value of the money earned and the money invested.<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>NPV &lt; 0:<\/strong> The PV of the inflows is less than the PV of the outflows. The money earned on the investment is worth less today than the costs, therefore, it is a bad investment.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>Thus, as the name suggests, net present value is nothing but net off of the present value of cash inflows and outflows by discounting the flows at a specified rate.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is NPV? The Net Present Value (NPV) is a method that is primarily used for financial analysis in determining the feasibility of investment in a project or a business. 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