Caspian Sea Drinks is considering the purchase of a new water filtration system produced by Rube Goldberg Machines. This new equipment, the RGM-7000, will allow Caspian Sea Drinks to expand production. It will cost $14.00 million fully installed and will be fully depreciated over a 15 year life, then removed for no cost. The RGM-7000 will result in additional revenues of $3.01 million per year and increased operating costs of $645,226.00 per year. Caspian Sea Drinks' marginal tax rate is 32.00%. The internal rate of return for the RGM-7000 is Submit Answer format: Percentage Round to: 4 decimal places (Example: 9.2434%, % sign required. Will accept decimal format rounded to 6 decimal places (ex: 0.092434))

Purple Haze Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its production efficiency. Buying a new machine press for $526,528 is estimated to result in some amount of annual pretax cost savings. The press will have an aftertax salvage value at the end of the project of $86,879. The OCFS of the project during the 4 years are $170,654, $199,481, $175,232 and $169,873, respectively. The press also requires an initial investment in spare parts inventory of $23, 482, along with an additional $1,631 in inventory for each succeeding year of the project. The shop's discount rate is 6 percent. What is the NPV for this project?

Caspian Sea Drinks is considering the purchase of a new water filtration system produced by Rube Goldberg Machines. This new equipment, the RGM-7000, will allow Caspian Sea Drinks to expand production. It will cost $13.00 million fully installed and will be fully depreciated over a 20 year life, then removed for no cost. The RGM-7000 will result in additional revenues of $3.89 million per year and increased operating costs of $548,726.00 per year. Caspian Sea Drinks' marginal tax rate is 32.00%. If Caspian Sea Drinks uses a 8.00% discount rate, then the net present value of the RGM-7000 is _____. (ROUND TO 4 DECIMAL PLACES)

Caspian Sea Drinks is considering the production of a diet drink. The expansion of the plant and the purchase of the equipment necessary to produce the diet drink will cost $28.00 million. The plant and equipment will be depreciated over 10 years to a book value of $1.00 million, and sold for that amount in year 10. Net working capital will increase by $1.29 million at the beginning of the project and will be recovered at the end. The new diet drink will produce revenues of $9.46 million per year and cost $1.84 million per year over the 10-year life of the project. Marketing estimates 13.00% of the buyers of the diet drink will be people who will switch from the regular drink. The marginal tax rate is 22.00%. The WACC is 15.00%. Find the NPV (net present value). Submit Answer format: Currency: Round to: 2 decimal places.

Sarasota Bottling Corporation is considering the purchase of a new bottling machine. The machine would cost $450,000 and has an estimated useful life of 8 years with zero salvage value. Management estimates that the new bottling machine will provide net annual cash flows of $78,750. Management also believes that the new bottling machine will save the company money because it is expected to be more reliable than other machines, and thus will reduce downtime. Click here to view PV tables. How much would the reduction in downtime have to be worth in order for the project to be acceptable? Sarasota's discount rate is 10%. (Use the above table.) (Round factor values to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.25124 and final answer to O decimal places, e.g. 5,275.) Reduction in downtime would have to have a present value $

Caspian Sea Drinks is considering the purchase of a new water filtration system produced by Rube Goldberg Machines. This new equipment, the RGM-7000, will allow Caspian Sea Drinks to expand production. It will cost $13.00 million fully installed and will be fully depreciated over a 16.00 year life, then removed for no cost. The RGM-7000 will result in additional revenues of $3.09 million per year and increased operating costs of $680,871.00 per year. Caspian Sea Drinks' marginal tax rate is 33.00%. The incremental cash flows for produced by the RGM-7000 are Submit Answer format: Currency: Round to: 2 decimal places.

United Pigpen is considering a proposal to manufacture high-protein hog feed. The project would make use of an existing warehouse, which is currently rented out to a neighboring firm. The next year's rental charge on the warehouse is $125,000, and thereafter, the rent is expected to grow in line with inflation at 4% a year. In addition to using the warehouse, the proposal envisages an investment in plant and equipment of $1.35 million. This could be depreciated for tax purposes straight-line over 10 years. However, Pigpen expects to terminate the project at the end of 8 years and to resell the plant and equipment in year 8 for $450,000. Finally, the project requires an immediate Investment in working capital of $375,000. Thereafter, working capital is forecasted to be 10% of sales in each of years 1 through 7. Year 1 sales of hog feed are expected to be $4.70 million, and thereafter, sales are forecasted to grow by 5% a year, slightly faster than the inflation rate. Manufacturing costs…

United Pigpen (UP) is considering a proposal to manufacture high protein hog feed. The project would make use of an existing warehouse, which is currently rented out to a neighboring firm. The next year’s rental charge on the warehouse is $260,000, and thereafter the rent is expected to grow in line with inflation at 4% a year. In addition to using the warehouse, the proposal envisages an investment in plant and equipment of $3.1 million. This could be depreciated for tax purposes over 10 years. However, UP expects to terminate the project at the end of eight years and to resell the plant and equipment in year 8 for $1,040,000. Finally, the project requires an initial investment in working capital of $910,000. Thereafter, working capital is forecasted to be 10% of sales in each of years 1 through 7. Year 1 sales of hog feed are expected to be $10.9 million, and thereafter sales are forecasted to grow by 5% a year, slightly faster than the inflation rate. Manufacturing costs are…

Firm Z has invested $4 million in marketing campaign to assess the demand for the product Minish. This product will be in the market next year and will last five years. Revenues are projected to be  $50 million per year along with expenses of $20 million. The firm spends $15 million immediately on equipment that will be depreciated using MACRS depreciation to zero.​ Additionally, it will use some fully depreciated existing equipment that has a market value of $4 million. Finally, Minish will have no incremental cash or inventory requirements (products will be shipped directly from the contract manufacturer to customers).  But, receivables are expected to account for 15% of annual sales. Payables are expected to be 15% of the annual cost of goods sold (COGS) between year 1 and year 4. All accounts payables and receivables will be settled at the end of year 5. Based on this information and WACC in the first part of the question, find the NPV of the project. Identify the IRR of the…

Abbott Mining Systems wants to determine whether it should upgrade a piece of equipment used in deep mining operations in one of its international operations now or later. If the com- pany selects plan A, the upgrade will be purchased now for $200,000. However, if the com- pany selects plan 1, the purchase will be deferred for 3 years when the cost is expected to rise to $300,000. Abbott is ambitious; it expects a real MARR of 12% per year. The inflation rate in the country has averaged 3% per year. From only an economic perspective, determine whether the company should purchase now or later (a) when inflation is not considered and (b) when inflation is considered.