A bicycle manufacturer currently produces 357000 units a


A bicycle manufacturer currently produces 357,000 units a year and expects output levels to remain steady in the future. It buys chains from an outside supplier at a price of $2.10 a chain. The plant manager believes that it would be cheaper to make these chains rather than buy them. Direct? in-house production costs are estimated to be only $1.50 per chain. The necessary machinery would cost $261,000 and would be obsolete after ten years. This investment could be depreciated to zero for tax purposes using a? ten-year straight-line depreciation schedule. The plant manager estimates that the operation would require additional working capital of $26,000 but argues that this sum can be ignored since it is recoverable at the end of the ten years. Expected proceeds from scrapping the machinery after ten years are $19,575. If the company pays tax at a rate of 35% and the opportunity cost of capital is15%?, what is the net present value of the decision to produce the chains? in-house instead of purchasing them from the? supplier? Project the annual free cash flows ?(FCF?) of buying the chains. The annual free cash flows for years 1 to 10 of buying the chains is.

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