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Chapman Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its production efficiency. Buying a new machine for $390,000 is estimated to result in $135,000 in annual pretax cost savings. The press falls in the MACRS five-year class, and it will have a pretax salvage value at the end of the project of $198,000. The MACRS rates are .2, .32, .192, .1152, .1152, and .0576 for Years 1 to 6, respectively. Ignore bonus depreciation. The press also requires an initial investment in inventory of $8,000, along with an additional $1,500 in inventory for each succeeding year of the project. The inventory will return to its original level when the project ends. The shop's tax rate is 21 percent and its discount rate is 16 percent. Should the firm buy and install the machine? Why or why not?

A) Yes; The net present value is $47,048.86.
B) No; The net present value is −$36,329.09.
C) No; The net present value is $56,652.88.
D) Yes; The net present value is $44,319.97.
E) Yes; The net present value is $56,329.09.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Increasing which one of the following will increase the operating cash flow of a profitable, tax paying company assuming that the bottom-up approach is used to compute the operating cash flow?

A) Erosion effects
B) Taxes
C) Fixed expenses
D) Salaries
E) Depreciation expense

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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The top-down approach to computing the operating cash flow:

Keyser Mining is considering a project that will require the purchase of $479,000 of equipment. The equipment will be depreciated straight-line to a zero book value over the five-year life of the project after which it will be worthless. The required return is 12 percent and the tax rate is 30 percent. What is the value of the depreciation tax shield in Year 4 of the project assuming no bonus depreciation is taken?

Cool Comfort currently sells 340 Class A spas, 465 Class C spas, and 125 deluxe model spas each year. The firm is considering adding a mid-class spa and expects that, if it does, it can sell 360 of them. However, if the new spa is added, Class A sales are expected to decline to 235 units while the Class C sales are expected to decline to 275 units. The sales of the deluxe model will not be affected. Class A spas sell for an average of $10,700 each. Class C spas are priced at $18,700 and the deluxe model sells for $27,000 each. The new mid-range spa will sell for $13,500. What is the value of the erosion effect?

A project will produce an operating cash flow of $56,200 a year for 5 years. The initial fixed asset investment in the project will be $238,900. The net aftertax salvage value is estimated at $67,000 and will be received during the last year of the project's life. What is the net present value of the project if the required rate of return is 15.2 percent?

The maintenance expenses on a rental house you own average $200 a month and property taxes are $4,800 annually. The house cost $238,500 when you purchased it four years ago. The house was recently appraised at $247,600. If you sell the house you will incur $12,900 in costs. What value should you place on this house should you opt to use it as your professional office?

W&M paid $179,000, in cash, for equipment three years ago and spent $18,000 for equipment upgrades last year. The company no longer uses this equipment and has received a cash offer of $68,000 from a buyer. The current book value of the equipment, including all updates, is $54,500. What value, if any, should the company assign to this equipment should it decide to use the equipment for a new project?

A five-year project has an initial fixed asset investment of $613,600, an initial net working capital investment of $22,200, and an annual operating cash flow of -$76,540. The fixed asset is fully depreciated over the life of the project and has no salvage value. The net working capital will be recovered when the project ends. The required return is 11.7 percent. What is the project's equivalent annual cost, or EAC?

Atlas Manufacturing purchased a new computer system in 2018 at a cost of $622,400. This system falls in the 5-year MACRS class that has depreciation allowance percentages of 20, 32, 19.2, 11.52, 11.52, and 5.76. What is the maximum amount of depreciation the firm can claim on this system in the first year if it selects the bonus depreciation method?

Ignoring bonus depreciation, the net book value of equipment will:

The option that is forgone so that an asset can be utilized by a specific project is referred to as which one of the following?

Pet Supply purchased $62,800 of fixed assets two years ago. The company no longer needs these assets so it is going to sell them today for $29,500. The assets are classified as five-year property for MACRS. The MACRS rates are .2, .32, .192, .1152, .1152, .0576, for Years 1 to 6, respectively. What is the net cash flow from this sale if the firm's tax rate is 23 percent and no bonus depreciation is taken?

You are working on a bid to build two apartment buildings a year for the next three years. This project requires the purchase of $847,000 of equipment that will be depreciated using straight-line depreciation to a zero book value over the project's life. Ignore bonus depreciation. The equipment can be sold at the end of the project for $415,000. You will also need $165,000 in net working capital over the life of the project. The fixed costs will be $528,000 a year and the variable costs will be $1,640,000 per building. Your required rate of return is 16 percent for this project and your tax rate is 24 percent. What is the minimal amount, rounded to the nearest $100, you should bid per building?

A two-year project has sales of $582,960, cash costs of $411,015, and depreciation expense of $68,109. The tax rate is 24 percent and the discount rate is 12 percent. What amount should be used as the annual depreciation tax shield when computing the project's operating cash flow? Ignore bonus depreciation.

The current book value of a fixed asset that was purchased two years ago is used in the computation of which one of the following?

Net working capital:

Precision Dyes is analyzing two machines to determine which one it should purchase. The company requires a rate of return of 15 percent and uses straight-line depreciation to a zero book value over the life of its equipment. Ignore bonus depreciation. Machine A has a cost of $462,000, annual aftertax cash outflows of $46,200, and a four-year life. Machine B costs $898,000, has annual aftertax cash outflows of $16,500, and has a seven-year life. Whichever machine is purchased will be replaced at the end of its useful life. Which machine should the company purchase and how much less is that machine's EAC as compared to the other machine's?

The Lunch Counter is expanding and expects operating cash flows of $49,500 a year for nine years as a result. This expansion requires $36,500 in new fixed assets. These assets will be worthless at the end of the project. In addition, the project requires $2,200 of net working capital throughout the life of the project. What is the net present value of this expansion project at a required rate of return of 15.6 percent?

Dog Up! Franks is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $411,500. This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project's seven-year life, at the end of which the sausage system is expected to be sold for $35,000 cash. No bonus depreciation will be taken. The sausage system will save the firm $129,400 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $22,500. All of the net working capital will be recovered at the end of the project. The tax rate is 23 percent and the discount rate is 13.2 percent. What is the net present value of this project?