Question

Quad Enterprises is considering a new three-year expansion project that requires an initial fixed asset investment of $2.58 million. The fixed asset falls into the three-year MACRS class. The project is estimated to generate $2,040,000 in annual sales, with costs of $743,000. The project requires an initial investment in net working capital of $260,000, and the fixed asset will have a market value of $280,000 at the end of the project.

  

If the tax rate is 34 percent, what is the project’s Year 0 net cash flow? Year 1? Year 2? Year 3? (MACRS schedule) (Enter your answers in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g. 1,234,567. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Years	Cash Flow
Year 0	$   -2840000
Year 1	$   1148390.76
Year 2	$   1245935.4
Year 3	$ ?
NPV ?

If the required return is 15 percent, what is the project's NPV? (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g. 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Answer 1

Calculate the NPV as follows:

Formula: