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What Is the Pay-Back Period?

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تم إضافة السؤال من قبل Tamer Elbeshbishy , Financial and Administration Manager , Muscat Towers Holding Group
تاريخ النشر: 2016/04/29
Ghada Eweda
من قبل Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.

Simply, Payback Period is the duration that an investment takes to recover its cost.  

In financial dictionary

Payback period is a criterion used  in investment appraisal to  evaluatethe desirability of an  investment project. Payback calculations involve measuring the cash flow associated with a project and indicate how it  takes for an investment to generate sufficient cash to recover its original capital outlay. 

For example

 If a machine costs $8,000 to purchase at the start of first year , then generates net cash inflows from the  sales  of products made by the machine of $ 8,000 in first year  and $5,000 in secondyear  then it would recoup the initial  cash outlay in the first year 

Payback Period Formula

Payback Period  +  (A - 1)  =   Cost - Cumulative Cash Flow %  ( A - 1) Cash FlowA 

Where:

A= Year in which the cumulative cash flows from investment exceed the initial cost

A-1 =The year prior to A.

Cash FlowA= Net cash flow in Year A

Cumulative Cash Flow( A - 1)= Cumulative Cash Flows from investment at the end of the Year (A - 1).

Cost= The initial cost of investment

Explanation

Payback Period is the duration needed to recover the cost of investment.

All other things equal, the investment with a shorter payback period should be preferred.

Long payback periods increase the riskiness of investments because the uncertainty increases with the length of time.

Consider the following two investments.

§  Investment A has NPV of $2,000,000 and payback period of 3 years.

§  Investment B has NPV of $2,100,000 and payback period of 15 years.

Now, even though Investment B is slightly more profitable, Investment A is probably the better bargain because of the fact that a lot could go wrong in the 12 additional years required for investment B to recover its cost. However, There are several factors that create uncertainty over a period of time such as changes in macro-economic factors, technology, legislation, competitive environment, consumer tastes, political environment and tax laws, all potentially affecting the feasibility of investments.

 

 

Wasim khan wazir
من قبل Wasim khan wazir , Finance Specialist , Mott Macdonald

Pay back period is period of time in which initial investment of project expected to receive. It is investment analysis technique

Santosh Kumar Arukh
من قبل Santosh Kumar Arukh , AGM- FINANCE & TAXATION , JFE ENGIEERING CORPORATION

What Is a Payback Period?

The PBP calculation is tool of a new investment for organisation or financer to know the return back investment money in how many years. This tools used for every new project small or large to know the  return back the investment money.

The payback period (PBP) is the amount of time that is expected before an investment will be returned in the form of income.

When an organisation is invested in two or more investments/projects, the Management and investors will try to know by compare the projects to see which one has the shorter PBP& which  Projects with longer PBP are usually associated with higher risk too.

The entire payback period system is depend to the Cash Flow, The Cash flow also became Postive / Negative based on the projection Income of future. While determining the payback period for both the circumstances (Negative/ Positive), the different formula/ technique/ method is to be adopted.

Lets Talk  About:

Positive Cash Flow for PBP:

This is prepared with very positive attitude and expected return/income in future.

i)             Positive cash flows mean that the investment is expected to bring in income that is constant each year.

ii)            The first investment is for a new machine that will produce one of your company's products more efficiently and will bring in the same income each month based on the organization's steady production of that item.

iii)           The cost of Projecte is $1,, and it is expected to bring the net cash flow of $, per Annum for the years of the project's useful life. The Payback period is Formula: Cost of project/ net Cash flow per annum, such as $1,,/ $,= years payback period.

Negative Cash Flow for PBP:

The Negative cash flows occur when the annual cash flows are not the same order as Positive cash Flow  each year.

Under these circumstances, the formula that we used before will not work but being the wise Investor it is required to prepare a project report with consider all  expected business by projecting the future year of  net cash flow for such project to Pay back.

 how to figure out the PBP for this project.

Negative  Cash Flows Formula:

Cumulative cash flows are the running total added to the initial investment. Remember that the initial investment is a cash outflow and is shown as a negative number.

 Year zero is the first year that shows the amount of the initial investment, and each year afterwards has income that is added to find the cumulative net cash flow for that year.

 

We see that in the chart, it takes over.5 Years to pay back the initial investment.

 

 

Year

 Net Cash Flow

Cumlative Cash Flow

PBP( in Year)

0

         -1,,

                     -1,,

 

1

               7,

                        -,

 

2

               8,

                        -,

 

3

             ,

                        -,

 

4

               9,

                        -,

 

5

             ,

                        -,

 

6

             ,

                        -,

 

7

               9,

                        -,

 

8

               8,

                        -,

 

9

               7,

                        -,

 

             ,

                          -6,

0.5

             ,

                           6,

 

                           6,

 

 

                           6,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 TOTAL PAYBACK PERIOD

.5

 

             ,                            

 It also described above by taking the last negative cumulative cash flow and dividing it by the expected net cash flow for the next year. 

danish shafiq
من قبل danish shafiq , Accountant , Anayat Fan

Payback period is the time in which the initial cash outflow of an investment is expected to be recovered from the cash inflows generated by the investment. It is one of the simplest investment appraisal techniques.

Formula

The formula to calculate payback period of a project depends on whether the cash flow per period from the project is even or uneven. In case they are even, the formula to calculate payback period is:

Payback Period =Initial Investment / Cash Inflow per Period

Zaheer uddin Raja
من قبل Zaheer uddin Raja , Accounts Supervisor , Pakistan International Airlines

Payback period, as its name suggests, is the time period required to recover initial capital expenditure for an investment.

Please note that the formula (initial investment / cash inflow per period) is useful for projects that produce equal periodic cash inflows throughout their lives.

However, in reality, periodic cash flows differ significantly making impossible to logically apply above formula. e.g payback period of a four-years project that requires $140m initial capital outlay and yields $10, 30, 40 & 120m in consecutive 4 years would be 3.5 years calculated as follows:

10+30+40 = 80m recovered in 3 years

Remaining 60m is estimated to be recovered in half a year on pro rata basis (60m/120m = 0.5year)

 

SHAHZAD Yaqoob
من قبل SHAHZAD Yaqoob , SENIOR ACCOUNTANT , ABDULLAH H AL SHUWAYER

Payback period in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required to recoup the funds expended in an investment, or to reach the break-even point. [1] For example, a $1000 investment made at the start of year 1 which returned $500 at the end of year 1 and year 2 respectively would have a two-year payback period. Payback period is usually expressed in yrting from investment year by calculating Net Cash Flow for each year: Net Cash Flow Year 1 = Cash Inflow Year 1 - Cash Outflow Year 1. Then Cumulative Cash Flow = (Net Cash Flow Year 1 + Net Cash Flow Year 2 + Net Cash Flow Year 3, etc.) Accumulate by year until Cumulative Cash Flow is a positive number: that year is the payback year. The time value of money is not taken into account. Payback period intuitively measures how long something takes to "pay for itself." All else being equal, shorter payback periods are preferable to longer payback periods. Payback period is popular due to its ease of use despite the recognized limitations described below.2=3 The term is also widely used in other types of investment areas, often with respect to energy efficiency technologies, maintenance, upgrades, or other changes. For example, a compact fluorescent light bulb may be described as having a payback period of a certain number of years or operating hours, assuming certain costs. Here, the return to the investment consists of reduced operating costs. Although primarily a financial term, the concept of a payback period is occasionally extended to other uses, such as energy payback period (the period of time over which the energy savings of a project equal the amount of energy expended since project inception); these other terms may not be standardized or widely used.

Amjed Mehboob
من قبل Amjed Mehboob , G.M -(Currently Job Seeking ) , Advance Education centre

Thanks For inviting and i agree with Saiyid Maududi answer

Dasarathi Rath
من قبل Dasarathi Rath , Sr. Accountant , Al Luban Special Investment LLC

Pay back period of an investment is the leanth of Time required for the cumulative total net cash flow from the investment to equal the total initial cash outlay. Pay back period = Total initial investment /annual expected after tax net cash flow.

tamer badran
من قبل tamer badran , chief accountant , zaid alkazemi sons International for gen. trd. & cont. co.

Payback period in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required to recoup the funds expended in an investment, or to reach the break-even point

wendy garcia
من قبل wendy garcia , secretary assistant , philam life

The pay back period is the lenght of the time required to recover the cost of an investment.

KHALID HAMID SIDDIQUI
من قبل KHALID HAMID SIDDIQUI , Assistant Manager , Toyota - Indus Motor Company

The pay back period is the period end of which entire investment recovered.

Pay Back Period = Cost of Investment / annual Cash Inflows

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