The payback period helps us to calculate the time taken to recover the initial cost of investment without considering the time value of money.

This means that it will not evaluate the project based on the present value of money but on the basis of the actual investment made. Also, the shorter the payback the better it is as we are recovering the initial investment deployed in the business.

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