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Daniel's Market is considering a project with an initial cost of $176,500. The project will not produce any cash flows for the first three years. Starting in Year 4, the project will produce cash inflows of $127,500 a year for three years. This project is risky, so the firm has assigned it a discount rate of 17 percent. What is the project's net present value?
NPV = Present Value of Cashflows - Initial Investment
| Year | Cash Flow | PVIF @17% | Present Value |
| 0 | $ (176,500.00) | 1.0000 | $ (176,500.00) |
| 1 | $ - | 0.8547 | $ - |
| 2 | $ - | 0.7305 | $ - |
| 3 | $ - | 0.6244 | $ - |
| 4 | $ 127,500.00 | 0.5337 | $ 68,040.38 |
| 5 | $ 127,500.00 | 0.4561 | $ 58,154.17 |
| 6 | $ 127,500.00 | 0.3898 | $ 49,704.42 |
| NPV | $ (601.03) |