Colsen Communications is trying to estimate the first-year net operating cash flow (at Year 1) for a proposed project. The financial staff has collected the following information on the project: Sales revenues $25 million Operating costs (excluding depreciation) 17.5 million Depreciation 5 million Interest expense 5 million The company has a 40% tax rate, and its WACC is 10%. Write out your answers completely. For example, 13 million should be entered as 13,000,000. If this project would cannibalize other projects by $2.5 million of cash flow before taxes per year, how would this change your answer to part a? Round your answer to the nearest dollar. The firm's OCF would now be $      Ignore Part b. If the tax rate dropped to 35%, how would that change your answer to part a? Round your answer to the nearest dollar. The firm's operating cash flow would   by $

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Colsen Communications is trying to estimate the first-year net operating cash flow (at Year 1) for a proposed project. The financial staff has collected the following information on the project:

Sales revenues $25 million
Operating costs (excluding depreciation) 17.5 million
Depreciation 5 million
Interest expense 5 million

The company has a 40% tax rate, and its WACC is 10%.

Write out your answers completely. For example, 13 million should be entered as 13,000,000.

    1. If this project would cannibalize other projects by $2.5 million of cash flow before taxes per year, how would this change your answer to part a? Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
      The firm's OCF would now be $   

 

  1. Ignore Part b. If the tax rate dropped to 35%, how would that change your answer to part a? Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
    The firm's operating cash flow would   by $
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