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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