The Profitability Index is the ratio of all the benefits and the costs of an investment. The costs in this case refer to the amount that a management spends on the project and the benefits refer to the cash generated for the company from the investment made in the project.
Since these costs and benefits could be generated across many years, the Net Present Value (NPV) of all the fu... https://finlib.in/library/p/profitability-index/