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- Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $17 million, and production and sales will require an initial $5 million investment in net operating working capital. The company’s tax rate is 25%. What is the initial investment outlay? The company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the new product last year. What is the initial investment outlay? 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 $1.5 million after taxes and real estate commissions. What is the initial investment outlay?arrow_forwardThis problem concerns the effect of taxes on the various break-even measures. Consider a project to supply Detroit with 40,000 tons of machine screws annually for automobile production. You will need an initial $5,400,000 investment in threading equipment to get the project started; the project will last for six years. The accounting department estimates that annual fixed costs will be $800,000 and that variable costs should be $350 per ton; accounting will depreciate the initial fixed asset investment straight-line to zero over the six-year project life. It also estimates a salvage value of $280,000 after dismantling costs. The marketing department estimates that the automakers will let the contract at a selling price of $450 per ton. The engineering department estimates you will need an initial net working capital investment of $520,000. You require a 16 percent return and face a marginal tax rate of 30 percent on this project.arrow_forwardKinky Copies may buy a high-volume copier. The machine costs $60,000 and this cost can be fully depreciated immediately. Kinky anticipates that the machine actually can be sold in 5 years for $22,000. The machine will save $23,000 a year in (after-tax) labor costs but will require an increase in working capital, mainly paper supplies, of $5,000. The firm's tax rate is 21%, and the discount rate is 11%. (Assume the net working capital will be recovered at the end of Year 5.) What is the NPV of this project? Note: Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. NPVarrow_forward
- Kinky Copies may buy a high-volume copier. The machine costs $100,000 and this cost can be fully depreciated immediately. Kinky anticipates that the machine actually can be sold in 5 years for $28,000. The machine will save $18,000 a year in (after-tax) labor costs but will require an increase in working capital, mainly paper supplies, of $9,000. The firm's tax rate is 21%, and the discount rate is 6%. (Assume the net working capital will be recovered at the end of Year 5.) What is the NPV of this project? Note: Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Answer is complete but not entirely correct. $ 8,304.15 NPVarrow_forward1arrow_forward. Myers Corporation is attempting to develop and market a new garden tractor. Fixed cost to develop and produce the new tractor are estimated to $10,000,000 per year. The variable cost to make each tractor has been estimated at $2000. The marketing department has recommended a price of $4000 per tractor. What is the breakeven level of output for the new tractor. 2. What if management expects to generate a target profit (EBIT) of $2,000,000, how many tractors must be sold.arrow_forward
- Modern Artifacts can produce keepsakes that will be sold for $76 each. Non-depreciated fixed costs are $940 per year and variable costs are $48 per unit. a. If the project requires an initial investment of $2,940 and is expected to last for 8 years and the firm pays no taxes, what are the accounting and NPV break-even levels of sales? The initial investment will be depreciated straight-line over 8 years to a final value of zero, and the discount rate is 14%. (Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.) NPV break-even sales level is ?arrow_forwardCalculate the net present value (NPV) before tax of investment A: a factory. Base your calculation on the following information: The investment cost is paid in full in quarter 0, and the cost of the factory is 100000. The factory has a lifetime of 20 quarters (5 years) and the value of the factory at the end of quarter 20 is 0 Only Basic jetpacks should be manufactured at the factory throughout its lifetime. There is no investment in research to streamline production or material consumption. Suppose the quarterly demand in the market is constant and given at P = 228 - 0.007 * Q, where P is price and Q is the number of jetpacks in demand. There are 5 competitors in the market (including you), and all sell the same number of jetpacks each quarter at the price of 193 each. You produce as much as you sell. The costs associated with the quarterly production at the factory are given at K = 158 * Q + 20000, where 158 * Q is direct labor cost and materials, and 20000 is quarterly maintenance…arrow_forwardA chemical company is considering buying a magic fan for its plant. Th e magic fan is expected to work forever and help cool the machines in the plant and, hence, reduce their maintenance costs by $6,000 per year. Th e cost of the fan is $50,000. Th e appropriate discount rate is 10 percent, and the marginal tax rate is 35 percent. Should the company buy the magic fanarrow_forward
- Modern Artifacts can produce keepsakes that will be sold for $70 each. Non-depreciated fixed costs are $1,050 per year and variable costs are $58 per unit. a. If the project requires an initial investment of $2,940 and is expected to last for 8 years and the firm pays no taxes, what are the accounting and NPV break-even levels of sales? The initial investment will be depreciated straight-line over 8 years to a final value of zero, and the discount rate is 9%. (Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.) Accounting break-even sales level NPV break-even sales level $ b. How do your answers change if the firm's tax rate is 40%? (Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.) Accounting break-even sales level NPV break-even sales level $arrow_forwardQuorum Corp. wants to replace a 5-year-old machine with a new machine that is more efficient. The old machine cost $20,000 when new and has a current book value of $8,000. Quorum can sell the old machine for $5,000. The company has a marginal tax rate of 40%. What will be the cash flow impact from the sale of the old machine on the initial outlay for a new machine? a) $3,800 b) $5,000 c) $6,200 d) $8,000arrow_forwardWilson Partners manufactures thermocouples for remote temperature monitoring of electronics applications. The current system has a fixed cost of $400,000 per year and a variable cost of $10 per unit. Wilson sells the units for $14 each. A newly proposed system will add on-board features that allow the revenue to increase to $16 per unit, but the fixed cost will now be $600,000 per year. The variable cost of the new system will be based on a $48 per hour rate with 0.2 hour dedicated to produce each unit Plot the two profit relations and estimate graphically the breakeven quantity between the current and proposed systems. Comment on your estimate.arrow_forward
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