Question

St. Johns River Shipyards' welding machine is 15 years old, fully depreciated, and has no salvage value. However, even though it is old, it is still functional as originally designed and can be used for quite a while longer. The new welder will cost $83,000 and have an estimated life of 8 years with no salvage value. The new welder will be much more efficient, however, and this enhanced efficiency will increase earnings before depreciation from $28,000 to $56,000 per year. The new machine will be depreciated over its 5-year MACRS recovery period, so the applicable depreciation rates are 20.00%, 32.00%, 19.20%, 11.52%, 11.52%, and 5.76%. The applicable corporate tax rate is 40%, and the project cost of capital is 10%.

What is the NPV of the project? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest cent.

The president of the company you work for has asked you to evaluate the proposed acquisition of a new chromatograph for the firm’s R&D department. The equipment's basic price is $180,000, and it would cost another $27,000 to modify it for special use by your firm. The chromatograph, which falls into the MACRS 3-year class, would be sold after 3 years for $63,000. The MACRS rates for the first 3 years are 0.3333, 0.4445 and 0.1481. Use of the equipment would require an increase in net working capital (spare parts inventory) of $9,000. The machine would have no effect on revenues, but it is expected to save the firm $54,000 per year in before-tax operating costs, mainly labor. The firm's marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 30%.

1. What is the Year 0 net cash flow? If the answer is negative, use minus sign.
   $
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3. What are the net operating cash flows in Years 1, 2, and 3? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest dollar.

   Year 1	$
   Year 2	$
   Year 3	$

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5. What is the additional (nonoperating) cash flow in Year 3? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
   $

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