Question

We project unit sales for a new household-use laser-guided cockroach search and destroy system as follows: Year Unit Sales 1 98,000 2 110,000 3 133,000 4 139,000 5 92,000 The new system will be priced to sell at $445 each. The cockroach eradicator project will require $1,600,000 in net working capital to start, and total net working capital will rise to 15% of the change in sales. The variable cost per unit is $315, and total fixed costs are $1,900,000 per year. The equipment necessary to begin production will cost a total of $19 million. This equipment is mostly industrial machinery and thus qualifies for CCA at a rate of 20%. In five years, this equipment will actually be worth about 20% of its cost. The relevant tax rate is 35%, and the required return is 17%. Based on these preliminary estimates, what is the NPV of the project? (Enter the answer in dollars. Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round the final answer to 2 decimal places. Omit $ sign in your response.) NPV $ 99793260 99793260 Incorrect

Answer 1

Based on the given data, pls find below steps, workings and answer:

Answer: NPV is 10739270.59

Computation of Net Present Value (NPV) based on the Discounted Cash flows; The Discounting factor is computed based on the formula: For year 0, the discounting factor is 1; For Year 1, it is computed as = Year 0 factor /(1+discounting factor%) ; Year 2 = Year 1 factor/(1+discounting factor %) and so on;

Next, the cashflows need to be multiplied with the respective years' discounting factor, to arrive at the discounting cash flows;

The total of all the discounted cash flows is equal to its respective Project NPV of the Cash Flows;