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Small Effect Corp is considering investing $70 million in a new factory that will generate net monthly cash flows beginning four months from today. The first cash flow will equal $2 million and subsequent cash flows will shrink by 1% each through the final cash flow which will occur four years and 1 month from today. The project’s cost of capital equals 12.5% per year. Set up the calculations needed to determine the net present value of factory.
Discount rate per month = discount rate per year/12 = 12.5/12 = 1.0417%
Discount Factor = 1/(1 + Disount rate per month)^Month
NPV = Sum of all PV
| Discount Rate per year | 12.50% | ||
| Discount Rate per month | 1.0417% | ||
| Month | Cash Flow | Discount Factor | PV | 
| 0 | -70000000 | 1 | -70000000 | 
| 1 | 0 | 0.989690722 | 0 | 
| 2 | 0 | 0.979487725 | 0 | 
| 3 | 0 | 0.969389913 | 0 | 
| 4 | 2000000 | 0.959396202 | 1918792.405 | 
| 5 | 1980000 | 0.94950552 | 1880020.93 | 
| 6 | 1960200 | 0.939716803 | 1842032.878 | 
| 7 | 1940598 | 0.930029001 | 1804812.42 | 
| 8 | 1921192.02 | 0.920441073 | 1768344.045 | 
| 9 | 1901980.1 | 0.91095199 | 1732612.557 | 
| 10 | 1882960.299 | 0.901560732 | 1697603.066 | 
| 11 | 1864130.696 | 0.892266292 | 1663300.984 | 
| 12 | 1845489.389 | 0.88306767 | 1629692.015 | 
| 13 | 1827034.495 | 0.87396388 | 1596762.156 | 
| 14 | 1808764.15 | 0.864953943 | 1564497.684 | 
| 15 | 1790676.509 | 0.856036892 | 1532885.153 | 
| 16 | 1772769.743 | 0.847211769 | 1501911.391 | 
| 17 | 1755042.046 | 0.838477628 | 1471563.491 | 
| 18 | 1737491.626 | 0.829833528 | 1441828.806 | 
| 19 | 1720116.709 | 0.821278543 | 1412694.946 | 
| 20 | 1702915.542 | 0.812811754 | 1384149.769 | 
| 21 | 1685886.387 | 0.804432252 | 1356181.382 | 
| 22 | 1669027.523 | 0.796139136 | 1328778.13 | 
| 23 | 1652337.248 | 0.787931516 | 1301928.592 | 
| 24 | 1635813.875 | 0.77980851 | 1275621.581 | 
| 25 | 1619455.736 | 0.771769247 | 1249846.135 | 
| 26 | 1603261.179 | 0.763812863 | 1224591.512 | 
| 27 | 1587228.567 | 0.755938504 | 1199847.189 | 
| 28 | 1571356.282 | 0.748145324 | 1175602.854 | 
| 29 | 1555642.719 | 0.740432485 | 1151848.404 | 
| 30 | 1540086.292 | 0.732799161 | 1128573.942 | 
| 31 | 1524685.429 | 0.72524453 | 1105769.767 | 
| 32 | 1509438.574 | 0.717767782 | 1083426.378 | 
| 33 | 1494344.189 | 0.710368115 | 1061534.464 | 
| 34 | 1479400.747 | 0.703044732 | 1040084.901 | 
| 35 | 1464606.739 | 0.695796848 | 1019068.753 | 
| 36 | 1449960.672 | 0.688623685 | 998477.2605 | 
| 37 | 1435461.065 | 0.681524471 | 978301.8437 | 
| 38 | 1421106.455 | 0.674498446 | 958534.0951 | 
| 39 | 1406895.39 | 0.667544854 | 939165.7773 | 
| 40 | 1392826.436 | 0.660662948 | 920188.8193 | 
| 41 | 1378898.172 | 0.65385199 | 901595.3133 | 
| 42 | 1365109.19 | 0.647111248 | 883377.5111 | 
| 43 | 1351458.098 | 0.640439998 | 865527.8212 | 
| 44 | 1337943.517 | 0.633837523 | 848038.8054 | 
| 45 | 1324564.082 | 0.627303116 | 830903.1759 | 
| 46 | 1311318.441 | 0.620836074 | 814113.7922 | 
| 47 | 1298205.257 | 0.614435702 | 797663.6578 | 
| 48 | 1285223.204 | 0.608101313 | 781545.9179 | 
| 49 | 1272370.972 | 0.601832227 | 765753.8561 | 
| NPV | -12170603.67 |