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5) The Blueberry Company is considering a project which will cost $424 initially. The project will not produce any cash flows for the first 3 years. Starting in year 4, the project will produce cash inflows of $454 a year for 5 years. This project is risky, so the firm has assigned it a discount rate of 15.4 percent. What is the net present value?
Computation of net present value | |||||
i | ii | iii | iv=ii*iii | ||
year | Cash flow | PVIF @ 15.4% | present value | ||
0 | -424 | 1.0000 | (424.00) | ||
1 | 0 | 0.8666 | - | ||
2 | 0 | 0.7509 | - | ||
3 | 0 | 0.6507 | - | ||
4 | 454 | 0.5639 | 256.00 | ||
5 | 454 | 0.4886 | 221.83 | ||
6 | 454 | 0.4234 | 192.23 | ||
7 | 454 | 0.3669 | 166.58 | ||
8 | 454 | 0.3179 | 144.35 | ||
556.98 | |||||
Therefore NPV = | 556.98 |