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Taylor United is considering overhauling its equipment to meet increased demand for its product. The cost of equipment overhaul is $3.88 million, plus $213,415.00 in installation costs. The firm will straight-line depreciate the equipment to zero using a 5-year recovery period. Additional sales from the overhaul should amount to $207,575.00 per year, and additional operating expenses and other costs (excluding depreciation) will amount to 36.00% of the additional sales. The firm has an ordinary tax rate of 34.00%. What is the operating cash flow for year 1 of this project?
Equip ment cost = | $3,880,000 | |
intellation cost = | $213,415 | |
Cost capitalised = | $4,093,415 | |
Life of machine(years) = | 5 | |
Depreciation = | 4093415/5 | |
$818,683 | ||
Additional annual sale | 207,575.00 | |
Coast @36% | 74,727.00 | |
Profit | 132,848.00 | |
Less | Depreciation | 818,683.00 |
Net profit | (685,835.00) | |
Less | Tax @ 34% | (233,183.90) |
Profit after tax | (452,651.10) | |
Add | Depreciation | 818,683.00 |
CAShflow | $ 366,031.90 |
It is assumed that cost of machine has been capitalised and depreciated over the useful life of 5 years
and loss canbe carried forward to next year