After spending $9,600 on client-development, you have just been offered a big production contract by a new client. The contract will add $196,000 to your revenues for each of the next five years and it will cost you $96,000 per year to make the additional product. You will have to use some existing equipment and buy new equipment as well. The existing equipment is fully depreciated, but could be sold for $45,000 now. If you use it in the project, it will be worthless at the end of the project. You will buy new equipment valued at $29,000 and use the 5-year MACRS schedule to
$38,000 per year to help with the expansion. You will have to immediately increase your inventory from $20,000 to $30,000. It will return to $20,000 at the end of the project is 21% and your discount rate is 14.7%. What is the
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- Happy Cleaners needs a new steam machine that costs $100,000. The company is evaluating whether it should lease or purchase the machine. The equipment falls into the MACRS 3-year class, and it would be used for 3 years and then sold, because the firm plans to move to a new facility at that time. The estimated value of the equipment after 3 years is $30,000. A maintenance contract on the equipment would cost $3,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. Alternatively, the firm could lease the equipment for 3 years for a lease payment of $29,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. The lease would include maintenance. The firm is in the 20% tax bracket, and it could obtain a 3-year simple interest loan, interest payable at the end of the year, to purchase the equipment at a before-tax cost of 10%. If there is a positive Net Advantage to Leasing the firm will lease the equipment. Otherwise, it will buy it. What is the NAL?arrow_forwardneed answer in step by steparrow_forwardYour company "Digitup Ltd” needs a new earth moving machine which it can buy for GBP 120,000. The economic life of the machine is 6 years. It can lease the machine for 6 years, with lease payments due at the start of each year, or buy it outright. Hello Yellow Ltd is a leasing company specialising in construction equipment. Due to its volume trades with the supplier it can get a superior discount and buy the machine for GBP 100,000 and depreciate it over 5 years to zero terminal value with maintenance and administration costs of an estimated £12,000 p.a.. Inflation is zero, Hello Yellow's cost of capital is 7% and has an average tax rate of 28%. What is the break-even lease that the company will charge if it lease for 6 years with payment annually in advance? Is this lease attractive to Digitup if its cost of capital is 8% and its tax rate is 24%? It will borrow to buy at its cost of capital and amortise the loan fully over 5 years depreciating the asset over that period on a…arrow_forward
- Scottech is examining an investment opportunity that will involve buying $120,000 worth of equipment. They will need $10,000 in net working capital up front. Shipping will cost $5,000 and installation will cost $10,000. The firm paid a management consultant $4,000 to analyze this project, which is supposed to increase sales by $20,000 per year. If the firm accepts the project, they will have to spend $3,500 to train the employees to use the new equipment. The corporate tax rate is 21%. What is the initial outlay for the project? ($150,500) ($130,500) ($126,500) O ($148,500) O ($123,000)arrow_forwardYou are investigating the cost of project to renovate the kitchens in a large apartment building, the payments for this work will be $32,500 up front and $13500 a month for 8 months, followed by a completion payment of $31500. To start this project you will need to purchase equipment for $70,000 at the beginning of the project and you expect monthly materials and operating costs to be about $7,500. The Rate of Return is 12%. What is the total PV of the 8 monthly payments of $13500 per month. You should assume that the payments are made at the end months 1 through 8. (So this is a ordinary simple annuity). Round your answer to the nearest penny. Your Answer: Answerarrow_forwardMartin Enterprises needs someone to supply it with 141,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next five years, and you’ve decided to bid on the contract. It will cost you $1,810,000 to install the equipment necessary to start production; you’ll depreciate this cost straight-line to zero over the project’s life. You estimate that, in five years, this equipment can be salvaged for $151,000. Your fixed production costs will be $266,000 per year, and your variable production costs should be $8.60 per carton. You also need an initial investment in net working capital of $131,000. If your tax rate is 21 percent and you require a return of 13 percent on your investment, what bid price per carton should you submit? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.arrow_forward
- Michael Cleaners needs a new steam finishing machine that costs $100,000. The company is evaluating whether it should lease or purchase the machine. The equipment falls into the MACRS 3-year class, and it would be used for 4 years and then sold, because the firm plans to move to a new facility at that time. The estimated value of the equipment after 4 years is $10,000. A maintenance contract on the equipment would cost $3,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. Alternatively, the firm could lease the equipment for 4 years for a lease payment of $29,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. The lease would include maintenance. Due to special circumstances, the firm is in the 20% tax bracket, and it could obtain debt at a before-tax cost of 10%. If there is a positive Net Advantage to Leasing the firm will lease the equipment. Otherwise, it will buy it. MACRS rates for Years 1 to 4 are 0.3333, 0.4445, 0.1481, and 0.0741. What is the difference in cash flow at…arrow_forwardHeer Enterprises needs someone to supply it with 160,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next three years, and you've decided to bid on the contract. It will cost you $840,000 to install the equipment necessary to start production and you estimate that it can be salvaged for $160,000 at the end of the three-year contract. Your fixed production costs will be $290,000 per year, and your variable production costs should be $8.50 per carton. If you require a 12 percent return on your investment, what is the minimum bid price you should submit?arrow_forwardPenny and Daughter’s construction business is considering purchasing a new Bobcat. The equipment will cost $230,000 and is expected to last 14 years. The Bobcat has a salvage vale of $16,000. Calculate the depreciation AND book value for each year. You can create one table for a-d or you can create different tables for each. This problem will need to be done in excel. (30 points)a. Use straight-line depreciation. (5 points)b. Use declining-balance depreciation with a depreciation rate that ensures the book value equals the salvage vale in the last year of the life of the equipment. c. Use double declining balance depreciation. d. Use MACRS depreciation where the Bobcat is considered a 10 year property. e. Graph the Book values of each methods on a single graph. The graph should have points at each year for each BV and a line of each method. You will have 4 lines on your graph. You should include year 0 on your graph so that all four lines start at the same point. Each method should be…arrow_forward
- For your new laboratory, you plan to purchase energy efficient freezers. There are two models in the market: Model X costs $100,000, and you need two units of model X for your project. Maintaining costs would be $50,000 and decreasing by $10,000 for each unit per year. Each freezer can be used for four years. At the end of which time, you estimate that the salvage value will be $70,000 for both freezers. Model Y costs $250,000 each. The maintaining cost of this model would be $10,000 per year and it would be decreasing by $5,000 starting in year 4. The salvage value of both model Y at the end of seven years is $60,000. Once again, two units of model Y is required for your project. Since you must complete your project in two years, you estimated that, the model X could be sold for $50,000 each and the model Y for $125,000 each after two years. Find the present worth difference between two models using MARR=10%. a) Between $52,640 and $54,800 O b) Between $35,640 and $37,800 c) Between…arrow_forwardYou are working on a bid to build four small apartment buildings a year for the next three years for a local community. This project requires the purchase of $900,000 of equipment which will be depreciated at a CCA rate of 30% over the next three years. The equipment can be sold at the end of the project for $400,000 (ignore any gains or losses). You plan to borrow half of the equipment cost at a rate of 5.5%. You will also need $200,000 in net working capital maintained over the life of the project. The labour costs are expected to be $100,000 per year, fixed costs will be $175,000 a year and the materials will be $140,000 per building per year. Your required rate of return is 12% for this project. Ignoring taxes, what is the minimal amount, that you should bid per building?arrow_forwardplease asnwer correctly: Your company has been approached to bid on a contract to sell 5,000 voice recognition (VR) computer keyboards per year for four years. Due to technological improvements, beyond that time they will be outdated and no sales will be possible. The equipment necessary for the production will cost $3.4 million and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis to a zero salvage value. Production will require an investment in net working capital of $395,000 to be returned at the end of the project, and the equipment can be sold for $325,000 at the end of production. Fixed costs are $595,000 per year, and variable costs are $85 per unit. In addition to the contract, you feel your company can sell 12,300, 14,600, 19,200, and 11,600 additional units to companies in other countries over the next four years, respectively, at a price of $180. This price is fixed. The tax rate is 23 percent, and the required return is 10 percent. Additionally, the president of the company…arrow_forward
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