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Dog Up! Franks is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $702,000. This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project's 7-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $108,000. The sausage system will save the firm $216,000 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $50,400. Required: If the tax rate is 32 percent and the discount rate is 15 percent, what is the NPV of this project?
a. $70,205.08
b. $38,752.31
c. $40,689.92
d. $11,143.49
e. $42,596.26
Answer:- Option (b): $38,752.31
Explanation:-
Following is the Excel Sheet showing the calculation of NPV of the project:-
Following is the Formula Sheet of above Excel sheet for easy understanding of the formulas used:-