Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $20 million, and production and sales will require an initial $4 million investment in net operating working capital. The company's tax rate is 25%. Enter your answers as a positive values. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Round your answers to two decimal places.   What is the initial investment outlay? $   million The company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the new project last year. What is the initial investment outlay? $   million Rather than build a new manufacturing facility, the company plans to install the equipment in a building it owns but is not now using. The building could be sold for $1.4 million after taxes and real estate commissions. What is the initial investment outlay? $   million

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Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $20 million, and production and sales will require an initial $4 million investment in net operating working capital. The company's tax rate is 25%. Enter your answers as a positive values. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Round your answers to two decimal places.

 

  1. What is the initial investment outlay?

    $   million

  2. The company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the new project last year. What is the initial investment outlay?

    $   million

  3. Rather than build a new manufacturing facility, the company plans to install the equipment in a building it owns but is not now using. The building could be sold for $1.4 million after taxes and real estate commissions. What is the initial investment outlay?

    $   million

 

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Initial expenditure is the seed investment used to start a project, including capital assets, tools and equipment.  It is also considered a capital expenditure for starting a business, rebuilding and expanding.

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