Keating Co. is considering disposing of equipment that cost $50,000 and has $40,000 of accumulated depreciation to date. Keating Co. can sell the equipment through a broker for $25,000 less a 5% commission. Alternatively, Gunner Co. has offered to lease the equipment for five years for a total of $48,750. Keating will incur repair, insurance, and property tax expenses estimated at $8,000 over the five-year period. At lease-end, the equipment is expected to have no residual value. The net differential profit or loss from the sell alternative is a   a. $27,000 loss   b. $17,000 loss   c. $14,500 profit   d. $7,000 profit

You have an opportunity to acquire a property from First Capital Bank. The bank recently obtained the property from a borrower who defaulted on his loan. First Capital is offering the property for $200,000. If you buy the property, you believe that you will have to spend (1) $10,500 on various acquisition related expenses and (2) an average of $2,000 per month during the next 12 months for repair costs, and so on, in order to prepare it for sale. Because First Capital Bank would like to sell the property as soon as possible, it is willing to provide $180,000 in financing at 4.25 percent interest for 12 months payable monthly (interest only). Your market research indicates that after you repair the property, it may sell for about $225,000 at the end of one year. Furthermore, you will probably have to pay about $3,000 in fees and selling expenses in order to sell the property at that time.   If you wanted to earn a 20 percent return compounded monthly, do you believe that this would be a…

Floopy Co has decided to purchase new equipment. They are in the 38% tax bracket.  The desired equipment costs $77,000 and it can be financed entirely with a 12% loan which requires annual end-of-year payments of $32,059 for 3 years. The firm will depreciate the equipment under MACRS using a 3-year recovery period (depreciation is 33% in year 1, 45% in year 2 and 15% in year 3). The firm will pay $2,000 per year for a maintenance contract.  Calculate the present value of the cash outflows for the purchase alternative.

McFadden Company owns equipment with a cost of $475,000 and accumulated depreciation of $280,000 that can be sold for $175,000, less a 7% sales commission. Alternatively, McFadden Company can lease the equipment for four years for a total of $180,000, at the end of which there is no residual value. In addition, the repair, insurance, and property tax expense that would be incurred by McFadden Company on the equipment would total $35,500 over the four-year lease. a. Prepare a differential analysis on February 18 as to whether McFadden Company should lease (Alternative 1) or sell (Alternative 2) the equipment. Differential Analysis Lease Equipment (Alt. 1) or Sell Equipment (Alt. 2) February 18 Revenues Costs Income (Loss) Lease Equipment Sell Equipment (Alternative 1) (Alternative 2) Differential Effect on Income (Alternative 2)