Super-duper Inc. has recently completed test marketing of a new vanilla frozen dessert. The test marketing cost $40,000. Based on the test market results, the company feels that an immediate $100,000 investment in equipment would yield a $15,000 after-tax net cash flow each year forever, the first cash flow received one year from today. The appropriate discount rate for the dessert project is 12%. Alternatively, the company could sell the test market results to Gell-O Inc. for $50,000, yielding a profit of $50,000 - $40,000 = $10,000 on the test market expense. Of course, selling the test market results to Gell-O contractually prohibits Super-duper from producing the dessert itself. What should Super-duper do? Support your decision.

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5. Super-duper Inc. has recently completed test marketing of a new vanilla frozen dessert. The test marketing cost $40,000. Based on the test market results, the company feels that an immediate $100,000 investment in equipment would yield a $15,000 after-tax net cash flow each year forever, the first cash flow received one year from today. The appropriate discount rate for the dessert project is 12%. Alternatively, the company could sell the test market results to Gell-O Inc. for $50,000, yielding a profit of $50,000 - $40,000 = $10,000 on the test market expense. Of course, selling the test market results to Gell-O contractually prohibits Super-duper from producing the dessert itself. What should Super-duper do? Support your decision.

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Given information :

Sunk cost = $40,000

Investment needed = $100,000

Perpetual cash flows = $15,000

Discount rate = 12%

Selling price of test results = $50,000

 

Step 2

Present value of the project when test results are sold :

Present value of project = Present value of Expected cash inflows - Present value of Invested cash outflows 

Present value of project = $50,0000 - $40,000

                                       = $10,000

 

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