A senior engineer at Company C has recommended the company to replace a 2-year-old measurement device...

A senior engineer at Company C has recommended the company to replace a 2-year-old measurement device immediately. He believes that it can be shown that the proposed equipment is economically advantageous at a 15% per year rate in a 5-year time span.

b. Determine the Economic Service Life (ESL) at interest of 10% per year for a machine that has a first cost of $100,000 with the data below Year AOC Market Value 1 -$1000 $7000 2 -$1200 $5000 3 -$1500 $4200 4 -$2000 $3000 5 -$3000 $2000

Expert Solution

ESL is 5 years since EUAC is lowest at life of 5 years

Year/ESL	1	2	3	4	5
0	-100000	-100000	-100000	-100000	-100000
1	6000	-1000	-1000	-1000	-1000
2		3800	-1200	-1200	-1200
3			2700	-1500	-1500
4				1000	-2000
5					-2000

NPV	-94545.45	-97768.60	-99872.28	-102344.79	-105635.67
EUAC	$104,000.00	$56,333.33	$40,160.12	$32,286.79	$27,866.42

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