During 2017, the management of Brogan plc identified a project that that will enable a new product to be sold and you have been asked to evaluate the new investment.

New plant and equipment will be purchased by the end of 2017 and this will cost £450 000. The new plant and equipment will be depreciated for tax purposes, using the straight-line method over a period of three years, which is the expected life of the machine. After three years, it is expected that the machine will have no scrap value.

As a result of this new product being manufactured and sold, the company’s working capital will increase by £20 000 at the end of 2017 and will increase to £35 000 in 2018 and remain at this level until the production ceases.

The new product will sell for £40 per unit and the variable cost is expected to be 25 per cent of the selling price. The fixed costs, excluding the depreciation charge will be £60 000 and this will increase by 10 per cent each year.

The sales of the new product are expected to be

2018                12 000 units

2019                20 000 units

2020                20 000 units

Tax is payable at 30 per cent and will be paid in the year after the profit is generated,

The required rate of return is 10 per cent

Required:

1. What will be the effect on the company’s profit if the new machinery and equipment is purchased?

2. Using the Discounted Cash Flow approach, determine if the company should invest in the new plant?

(c)        What the other methods are available to evaluate investment projects and discuss the issues that must be considered if these methods are used to make an investment decision.

***Note: Answer is NOT $5,567,662 nor $8,243,446

Please get it right as I am submitting this question for the third time and am running out of questions. Thanks!

Part I– Check your file system

Step 1: Execute the ls /dev/sd* command to see the current hard disk devices.

Step 2. Execute the fdisk -l command to list the current hard disk partitions

Step 3. Execute the parted -l command to list the current hard disk partition table.

Part II– Create a new virtual disk

Step 1. In the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager program, create a new virtual hard disk with the size of 200 MB, and name it as “your_name.vdi” (for example, jbondsvdi).

Step 2. Load this virtual hard disk to your virtual machine.

Step 3. Repeat the steps in Part I, and highlight the differences

Part III– Creating Partitions and Filesystems

Step 1. Use the fdisk command to create a new primary partition on the new hard disk.

Step 2. Use the correct command to create an ext4 filesystem on the new partition.

Step 3. Repeat the steps in Part I, and highlight the differences

Step 4. Make a new directory named /cyse. And mount the new partition under this directory.

Step 5. Use the df command to check the mounting point of the new partition.

Step 6. Create a new file named file1.txt in the directory /cyse and put your name in that file

Step 7. Unmount /cyse directory.

Step 8. Check the contents in /cyse directory. What do you find?

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At the same time, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand's central bank) said it would continue to try to stimulate the economy. This stimulus is likely to lead to rising prices for consumer goods, even as the prices of producer goods remain low.

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