In: Economics
A company needs a modern material handling system for facilitating access to and from a busy warehouse. If the company’s management use a MARR (given in the below table for each group) in their economic decisions.The company found two systems, the first system is a second-hand and the second system is a new system. The economic consequences of both systems are given in the below table for each group. PART 2: Considering the two mutually exclusive alternatives and assume permanent need for the system (repeatability assumption).
a) Determine the unfavorable system’s investment cost at which the company would be indifferent between alternatives. (For example, if when you analyze the problem, you pick the new system, determine the investment cost of the second-hand system that makes it on same level of economic desirability).
MARR = 21.6% per year
Second hand system
Investment cost = $192,500
Annual expenses = $51,800
Annual saving = $104,500
Useful life = 8 years
Salvage value = $68,000
NEW system
investment cost = $312,500
annual expenses = $52,300
first year savings = $127,000 decreasing by $1,000 each year thereafter
useful life = 16 years
salvage value = $99,000
***please like this answer so that I can get a small benefit. Please support me. Thankyou***