Project Black Swan requires an initial investment of $115,000. It has positive cash flows of $140,000 for each of the next two years. Because of major demolition and environmental clean-up costs, cash flow for the third and final year of the project is $(170,000).
A) All possible IRR's for this project are negative.
B) It is not possible to compute an IRR for this project.
C) The project is unacceptable at any required rate of return.
D) This project might have more than one IRR.

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This project has non-conventional cash flows with both positive and negative cash flows. Therefore, it is possible for this project to have more than one IRR.

Project Black Swan Requires an Initial Investment of $115,000