Unit 6 Individual Assignment
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You must upload an Excel spreadsheet for your assignment, with formulas showing all calculations. If you wish, you may submit, in addition, a Word document or PDF with accompanying text.
Please name your file “Lastname, Firstname Unit 6”.
For this final unit, the assignment drills down from analyzing the company, as a whole, to analyzing specific initiatives.
Problem 1
A company has a 7.4% WACC and is considering two investments with the following net cash flows:
Yr 0 Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Yr 6 Yr 7
Project A -$320 -$385 -$178 -$5 $452 $555 $888 -$100
Project B -$520 $115 $135 $155 $175 $195 $215 $0
a. What is each project’s NPV?
b. What is each project’s IRR?
c. If you had to choose one of these investments, which would you select, and why?
Problem 2
The Greener Green Company is considering purchasing additional equipment that would have an initial cost of $400,000. They estimate it would add $215,000 to pre-tax revenues and variable operating expense (before taking account of depreciation) per year of 37%, for the first 4 years. In Year 5, they will cease production, and therefore will have no additional revenues or ongoing operating costs, but will incur special shutdown costs of $45,000 (aside from depreciation).
The packaging machine will be depreciated on a straight-line basis, over 5 years, and will have no salvage value (ignore the MACRS depreciation methodology for this problem.)
Assuming a 25% marginal tax rate, and a 8.5% WACC, calculate the NPV of this investment.
Do you recommend this project? Why?
Good luck!