Fairfax Pizza is considering buying a new oven. The new oven would be purchased today for 14,000 dollars. It would be depreciated straight-line to 1,600 dollars over 2 years. In 2 years, the oven would be sold for an after-tax cash flow of 2,300 dollars. Without the new oven, costs are expected to be 14,000 dollars in 1 year and 17,900 in 2 years. With the new oven, costs are expected to be 3,800 dollars in 1 year and 14,300 in 2 years. If the tax rate is 50 percent and the cost of capital is 11.49 percent, what is the net present value of the new oven project?

5. ABC Telecom plans to purchase a new machine that will produce mobile phones. The new machine will require an initial investment of $450,000 and has an economic life of five years and will be fully depreciated by the straight-line method. The machine will produce 20.000 mobile phones per year with each costing $120,00 to make. Each will be sold at $130,00. Assume LAR Telecom uses a discount rate of 22 percent and has a tax rate of 40 percent. What is the NPV of the project and should LAR Telecom make the purchase? If not, please explain why.

XYZ corp. is considering investing in a new machine. The new machine cost will $10,000 installed. Depreciation expense will be $1000 per year for the next five years. At the end of the fifth year XYZ expects to sell the machine for $6000. XYZ will also sell its old equipment today that has a book value of $3000 for $3000. In five years, the old machine will be fully depreciated and have a salvage value of zero. Additionally, XYZ Corp expects that the new machine will increase its EBIT by $2000 in each of the next five years. Assuming that XYZ’s tax rate is 21% and the new machines WACC is 15%, what is the projects NPV. Round your final answer to two decimals.

Assignment on New Technologies (Essay)

Assignment on New Technologies

The world of information technology is constantly changing. New technologies are invented almost daily.

Tell the story of a new information technology invented during the past 30 years. You may present inventors’ stories. You should explain the relation to information technology. Examples of information technologies invented during the past 30 years include:

• Viber; Amazon; Netflix; Twitter; YouTube; MySpace; WebVR; Google; Flickr; Smartphone; Linux; PayPal; Wikipedia; Skype; fiber optics; cloud computing; HTML5; 4G or 5G Networks; Smartboard; 3-D Printer; Instagram; Pinterest; Auto-tune; Cochlear Implants; Snapchat; Bluetooth; lab-on-a-chip technology; a lab on fiber; Apple Watch; Second Life; IMVU; multi-core processor; flat panel display; solid-state drive; BitLocker technology; e-readers; laser microphone; robot vacuum; radar and laser detectors; Uber; see also textbooks and recent news. A good source for personal computers related information is PC World.

1. Limit your written answer to a maximum of 350 words; after the text, including the sources you used for your research. The written assignment (Essay) portion of your mark is 2%.
2. Prepare a 3-5-minute presentation. The presentation portion of your mark is 3%.

3. It is a group activity and makes a group of two (2) students. You can work individually if you do not find a suitable partner. However, each student has to submit the assignment and powerpoint presentation individually but have to mention the name of your partner in the submitted documents.

Submit the assignment and the presentation by uploading your files on CCMS (Moodle) to each student individually. If needed, you may submit only a link to the presentation. A submission of a presentation file is not required. You may present without any presentation documents.

Solar Co. is evaluating a proposal to build a new solar plant. The new plant costs $225 million today (at t = 0), and the expected salvage value of the plant in eight years is $43 million (at t = 8). Based on these assumptions, the NPV of this project is $20 million. Now suppose the project team made an error, and the expected salvage value of the plant is zero in eight years (at t = 8). By how much would the NPV of the project change, assuming the salvage value is zero? The CCA rate for the solar plant is 40%. Solar Co. has a corporate tax rate of 37% and a required rate of return of 15%.

ABC is a new company established in Victoria. The new equipment XYZ is considering costs $765,000 and is expected to last for 5 years. The equipment can be sold at $137,000 at the end of the project. The initial net working capital investment is 52,000 and will remain constant throughout the period and 100% will be recovered at the end of the final year. The new equipment will save $120,000 annually before taxes. If the company's required rate of return is 15% and the PVCCATs value is $123,765 determine the NPV value of the project. Assume a tax rate of 30%. The CCA rate is 35%.

A new company is planning to build a new database system for holding information about customers and salesmen. ‘Customers’, ‘Salesmen’ and ‘Customers_Salesmen’ are part of the information that the new company wants to store in the new database. These tables are shown below in figure 1, figure 2 and figure 3. The new company intends to use MySQL for building the new database.

Figure 1: Customers table

Figure 2: Salesmen table

Figure 3: Customers_Salesmen table

Based on the above three tables, answer the following 6 questions:

1. Write an SQL statement for creating the customer table that is shown in figure 2. No need to write any SQL statement for adding any record to the customer table.  
2. Write an SQL statement for adding one record to the customer table that was created in question-1 above. The added record should be one of the records that are given in the customer table.   
3. Write an SQL statement to list the information of salesmen who work in Paris.
4. Write an SQL statement to list all customer names who work with the salesman whose id is 5001.                                                                                                                           \
5. Write an SQL statement to list all customer names who work with the salesman whose commission is 0.13.                                                                                                          ]
6. Write an SQL statement to increase the salesman commission by 5%.

A swim club is designing a new pool to replace its old pool. The new pool would need to last for 10 years since the club is planning on relocating after 10 years. A concrete shell would cost $85,000 and last for all 10 years. Another option is to install a vinyl liner that would cost only $70,000 to install. However, the vinyl is not guaranteed to last for all 10 years, and it has a 40% chance of breaking down. Repair of the vinyl would cost $40,000 and would extend the life of the vinyl liner to the 10-year mark. If both options are acceptable to the swim club, which one minimizes cost?

Burnaby Ltd. is considering the acquisition of new production equipment. If purchased, the new equipment would cost $1,850,000. Installation and testing costs would be $35,000 and $25,000 respectively. Once operational, the equipment will cause an increase in working capital of $120,000. The new equipment is expected to generate increased annual sales of $720,000. Variable costs to operate the machine are estimated at 42% of sales and annual fixed costs would be lowered by $75,000. The equipment has an estimate 6 year life and a salvage value of $90,000. The company requires an 11% return on its investments. Ignore income taxes.

Required: a.   Compute the net present value.

b. How do you compare NPV to Payback method? Which method is likely to be more reliable?

Sammy Benson supervised greater Downtown Bank's Special Check Sorting Unit, which processed odd-sized, foreign, and damaged checks. Once the checks were sent to his unit, they were manually interpreted, recorded, entered into the appropriate account transactions, and filed for return. Sammy supervised three check sorting clerks in his department. These jobs were staffed by relatively untrained, entry-level individuals who had just graduated from high school. During the summer, Greater Downtown Bank hired low-income, disadvantaged young people for various jobs throughout the company as part of its Community Upbeat campaign. To participate in this effort, representatives from the Human Resources Department visited selected high schools to interview students. Since the students were already prescreened by the school, the interviews were little more than "get-acquainted" discussions. Last summer, Sammy's unit supplied one of the jobs in this effort. Juanita Perez was hired in this context to work as a Special Checks clerk. She was scheduled to begin working in June after graduating from the local vocational high school, where she maintained a C average. This was her first full-time job. When Juanita reported to the bank for a brief induction program, she was scared. It was not only her first day on the job, but the first time she had ever been in the bank. Nevertheless, she kept up her courage and reported to the Human Resources Department as planned. After waiting in the lobby for a while, she was taken to a small meeting room where she and two other new hires were shown how to fill out and sign various forms and documents. Next, an administrative assistant read to the new hires a series of personnel policies about work schedules, breaks, overtime, pay secrecy, attendance, and benefits. She signed more forms, wondering what all this meant. As the meeting drew to a close, Sammy Benson arrived after receiving a call from Human Resources. He and Juanita were introduced for the first time. Sammy escorted Juanita back to the Human Resources Department, showing her the bank's various offices and other departments. He gave her a quick tour of his area, introducing her to the other clerks as he went. Sammy was careful not to interrupt their work, however, nor did he explain to Juanita what they were doing. It was obvious by the expressions on their faces that the employees were surprised to see her. After a quick tour and passing introductions, Sammy gave Juanita some basic instructions in her job. He gave Juanita the job of processing foreign checks. He felt this task was the easiest job to learn and do correctly. During her first day on the job, Sammy spent about 15 minutes showing her the procedure: inspect, record, enter, adjust, file. Since he had to prepare for a meeting later that day, that was all the time he could spend with her. By the end of the first week, Juanita seemed to be getting the hang of things: She came to work on time, stayed busy, and was fairly pleasant and easy to get along with. Sammy intended to spend as much time as possible with her during this period; however, because she seemed to catch on quickly and he was very busy, he saw her only occasionally over the next few weeks. Then, after about a month, Juanita called in sick one day. A replacement was brought in, and as she looked through Juanita's desk for a notepad, she found what appeared to be a large pile of unfiled checks. When Sammy looked through the pile, he found that there were, in fact, quite a few unprocessed checks, some of which dated from Juanita's first day on the job. As they were the more unusual kinds of checks the department handled, Sammy assumed that she apparently had not known how to process them. Unfortunately, the combined value of these checks totaled around $65,000. The bank had lost the "float" value on them, and Sammy knew that customer complaints would be coming in soon. Sammy expected Juanita to come back to work the following day, and he wondered if he should write up a warning notice for her immediately.

(Source: Alan Clardy, Ph.D., Advantage Human Resources, HRD Press, 1994)

1- What could be done by Sammy to manage Juanita's poor performance problem? Suggest four (4) methods of how Sammy can provide Juanita with skills and knowledge to improve her performance. Provide suitable example to support your answer.

2- Managers have the most significant impact on employee performance. Based on this statement, how would Sammy align the performance of his staff with the organizational goals? Propose four (4) work practices that Sammy can apply which lead to both high individual and high organizational performance. Provide suitable example to support your answer.

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