The senior management of Mazoon water company from Muscat has recently conducted an online Zoom meeting with its technical experts at Ibri, to discuss the decision of replacing their major water plant at Dunk. What could be the reason for the above decision. a. Sudden failure of the water plant b. To upgrade the existing water plant with latest technology c. Gradual deterioration of the water plant d. All the options
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- Refer to the XYZ Company example in the chapter and the results in Panels A and B of Exhibit 12.7. On the basis of this information, management of the company has decided to delay the implementation of the project for 1 year. Those managers are now interested in knowing how sensitive this decision is with respect to the assumptions they’ve made regarding the basic analysis. Therefore, they have asked you to prepare some supplementary analyses regarding Panel B of Exhibit 12.7. Required: 1. Holding everything else constant, what is the expected NPV of the decision if the probabilities for the three scenarios are as follows: high (20%), medium (47%), and low (33%)? 2. Holding everything else constant, what is the expected NPV of the decision if the probabilities for the three scenarios are as follows: high (24%), medium (43%), and low (33%)? 3. Prepare a 5 × 3 table containing the estimated NPV of the decision to delay for each combination of the following: risk-free rate of interest…Your project team has been tasked to complete a project to build a new bridge to replace an old one on a road at a point that crosses a small river in a rural community. The old bridge to be replaced is on a single access road to the community and was recently damaged by heavy vehicles crossing it for a construction work in the village. The old bridge is still in use but has failed in the mid-section and can collapse in anytime – the project is therefore urgent from a safety point of view. The bridge is used by both vehicles and pedestrians at all times of the year. The community had petitioned the local council for support in replacing the old bridge but the response had been slow. A private company took the initiative and is replacing the bridge at their expense and has hired you and your team to manage the replacement project. Create a time estimate and cost estimate using estimation methods (1 page each inn tabular form).? Please Answer related to this question only. I posted…2) AMT, Inc., is considering the purchase of a digital camera for maintenance of design specifications by feeding digital pictures directly into an engineering workstation where computer-aided design files can be superimposed over the digital pictures. Differences between the two images can be noted, and corrections, as appropriate, can then be made by design engineers. a) You have been asked by management to determine the PW of the EVA of this equipment, assuming the following estimates: capital investment = $345,000; market value at end of year six = $120,000; annual revenues = $120,000; annual expenses $8,000; equipment life 6 years; effective income tax rate 50%; and after-tax MARR = 10% per year. MACRS depreciation will be used with a five-year recovery period. b) Compute the PW of the equipment's ATCFS. Is your answer in Part (a) the same as your answer in Part (b)? 1
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- The company manufacture XYZ brand Zinc Chloride AA, AAA and 9v batteries, Alkaline AA, and AAA batteries. LED bulbs including emergency lamps, LED panel lights, and Industrial lights You are planning of plant relocation of your factory 50km away from the current establishment What type of leadership practice or practices more suitable to deploy to address the above situation? Justify your answer for selectionNewmarge Products Inc. is evaluating a new design for one of its manufacturing processes. The new design will eliminate the production of a toxic solid residue. The initial cost of the system is estimated at 860,000 and includes computerized equipment, software, and installation. There is no expected salvage value. The new system has a useful life of 8 years and is projected to produce cash operating savings of 225,000 per year over the old system (reducing labor costs and costs of processing and disposing of toxic waste). The cost of capital is 16%. Required: 1. Compute the NPV of the new system. 2. One year after implementation, the internal audit staff noted the following about the new system: (1) the cost of acquiring the system was 60,000 more than expected due to higher installation costs, and (2) the annual cost savings were 20,000 less than expected because more labor cost was needed than anticipated. Using the changes in expected costs and benefits, compute the NPV as if this information had been available one year ago. Did the company make the right decision? 3. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Upon reporting the results mentioned in the postaudit, the marketing manager responded in a memo to the internal audit department indicating that cash inflows also had increased by a net of 60,000 per year because of increased purchases by environmentally sensitive customers. Describe the effect that this has on the analysis in Requirement 2. 4. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Why is a postaudit beneficial to a firm?Analysis of a replacement project At times firms will need to decide if they want to continue to use their current equipment or replace the equipment with newer equipment. In this case, the company will need to perform a replacement analysis to determine which alternative is the best financial decision for the company. Consider the case of LoRusso Company: The managers of LoRusso Company are considering replacing an existing piece of equipment, and have collected the following information: • The new piece of equipment will have a cost of $600,000, and it will be depreciated on a straight-line basis over a period of five years (years 1–5). • The old machine is also being depreciated on a straight-line basis. It has a book value of $200,000 (at year 0) and three more years of depreciation left ($50,000 per year). • The new equipment will have a salvage value of $0 at the end of the project's life (year 5). The old machine has a current salvage value (at year 0) of…