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P10-13 Project Evaluation [LO1]
Dog Up! Franks is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $319,800. This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project's 6-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $49,200. The sausage system will save the firm $98,400 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $22,960. |
Required: |
If the tax rate is 33 percent
and the discount rate is 15 percent, what is the NPV of this
project? |
NPV of the Project is negative & it is around (2513.87)
Note :
A) Working Capital is recovered at the end of the project
B) Operating Costs before taxes means it is inclusive of the interest and the depreciation charges.