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St trucking just signed a $3.8 million contract. The contract calls for a payment of $1.1 million today, $1.3 million one year from today, and $1.4 million two years from today. What is the contract worth today at a discount rate of 8.0 percent? Please show how to work this problem in excel.
| Today's worth of the contract means present value of future payment. | |||||
| Year | Cash flow | PV factor | PV of cash flow | ||
| a | b | c | d=b*c | ||
| 0 | $ 11,00,000 | 1 | $ 11,00,000 | ||
| 1 | $ 13,00,000 | 0.925926 | $ 12,03,704 | ||
| 2 | $ 14,00,000 | 0.857339 | $ 12,00,274 | ||
| Present Value | $ 35,03,978 | ||||
| Worth of the contract= $3503978.05 | |||||
| Working Note: | |||||
| PV Factor | |||||
| Year 0 | =1/1.08^0 | =1 | |||
| Year 1 | =1/1.08^1 | =0.925926 | |||
| Year 2 | =1/1.08^2 | =0.857339 | |||
| Please rate. | |||||