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Chapter 16, Problem 18P
Problem 10-18A Postaudit evaluation
Brett Collins is reviewing his company’s investment in a cement plant. The company paid $12,000,000 five years ago to acquire the plant. Now top management is considering an opportunity to sell it. The president wants to know whether the plant has met original expectations before he decides its fate. The company’s discount rate for present value computations is 8 percent. Expected and actual
Required
Round your computations to the nearest whole dollar.
- a. Compute the
net present value of the expected cash flows as of the beginning of the investment. - b. Compute the net present value of the actual cash flows as of the beginning of the investment.
- c. What do you conclude from this postaudit?
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The Sisyphean Company is planning on investing in a new project. This will involve the purchase of some new machinery costing $440,000. The Sisyphean Company
expects cash inflows from this project as detailed below:
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
$200,000
$225,000
$275,000
$200,000
The appropriate discount rate for this project is 15%.
The net present value (NPV) for this project is closest to:
A. $199,213
B. $498,032
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D. $139,449
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QUESTION TWO
A company is considering an investment proposal to install new milling controls. The project will cost Kshs 50,000,000. The facility has a life expectancy of five years and no salvage value. The company’s tax rate is 40%. The estimated cash flows from the proposed investment proposal are as follows:
Year CF Kshs 000
1 13,000
2 14,000
3 18,000
4 23,000
5 25,000
Compute:
Accounting Rate of Return
Discounted payback period at 6% discounting factor
Net present value at 15% discounting factor and advise management on the project’s feasibility
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