1. ISSUES IN FOREIGN
INVESTMENT ANALYSIS

2. CAPITAL BUDGETING
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4. Capital budgeting to a company
is what buying stocks or bonds is
to individuals
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5. • Estimate cash flows (inflows &
outflows).
• Assess risk of cash flows.
• Determine appropriate discount
rate (r = WACC) for project.
• Evaluate cash flows. (Find NPV or
IRR etc.)
• Accept/Reject Decision
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6. EVALUATION METHODS
 Payback (Payback Period = Cost of Project / Annual Cash Inflows)
 Discounted Payback (DCF = Actual Cash flows / [1 + i]^n)
 Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 0 = P0 + P1/(1+IRR) + P2/(1+IRR)2 +
P3/(1+IRR)3 + . . . +Pn/(1+IRR)n
 Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) = number of periods (√ Sum
of Terminal Cash Flows other than Initial Investment / Initial
Investment ) − 1
 Profitability Index (PI) = Present Value of Future Cash Flows
/Initial Investment Required
 Net Present Value (NPV)
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7. Project’s Cash Flows
(CFt)
Market
interest rates
Project’s
business risk
Market
risk aversion
Project’s
debt/equity capacity
Project’s risk-adjusted
cost of capital
(r)
The Big Picture:
The Net Present Value of a Project
NPV = + + ··· + − Initial cost
CF1 CF2 CFN
(1 + r )1
(1 + r)N(1 + r)2
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8. CAPITAL BUDGETING FOR
FOREIGN PROJECTS
 MORE COMPLICATIONS
 Multiple currencies
 Multiple tax rates
 Multiple tax systems
 Exchange rate fluctuations
 Capital flow restrictions
 Project specific subsidization – host government
 Project specific penalties – host government
 Valuing and investing – local currency of host vs
domestic currency of parent
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9. Issues in Foreign Investment
Analysis
1. Parent Vs. Project Cash Flows
2. Tax Issue
3. Exchange Control
4. Subsidized Finance
5. Knock-on Effects
6. Exchange Rate Changes and Inflation
7. Loss due to lost Exports
8. International Diversification Benefits
9. Political Risk
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10. 1. Project cash flows computed from subsidiaries
side (separate entity)
2. Specific forecasts concerning the amounts,
timing of distributable cash expenses that will
be incurred in the process of transfer from
parent side
3. Indirect benefits and costs , such as an
increase or decrease in export sales by
another partner
Parent
VS
Project
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13. Host country and home
country tax
Earnings - host country tax
net + withholding tax
(distribution)
Earnings - further taxed in
home country
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After tax cash flows

14. Repatriation of earnings to
parent
Government
and
international
agencies
Add value of loan to
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15. There are knock-on effects from
one country to another. For
example, investment in a
subsidiary in country X affects
cash flows of a subsidiary in
country Y
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Loss of exports

18. Take care of in case of
marginal project or a project
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19. RISK ANALYSIS
Political risk
Financial risk (Exchange rate
Risk, Inflation/Purchasing power
risk, Interest rate risk)
Other risks (Cost overruns and bad
management)
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20. Expropriation element contributes to divergence in cash flows of the
project and cash flows available to the parent company
In case of funds to be blocked in perpetuity, the time value of the
project is zero
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Political risk

21. METHODS IN INCORPORATION
OF RISKS
Associate local government with the
project, insurance
Shortening the payback period
Raising the required IRR
Adjusting cash flows to reflect the specific impact of a
given risk
Take and pay/ take or pay contracts, guarantees of loan
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22. EVALUATION OF OVERSEAS
PROJECTS – INFORMATION
REQUIRED
 Net Investment Outlay
 Estimating Streams of Cash Benefits
 Estimating Operating Cash Outflows
 Salvage Value
 Lifespan of the Projects
 Restrictions on Transfer of Funds
 Tax Laws
 Exchange Rates
 Required Rate of Return
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