1. Who Dat Restaurant is considering the purchase of a $27,000 soufflé maker. The soufflé maker has an economic life of six years and will be fully depreciated by the straight-line method. The machine will produce 2,300 soufflés per year, with each costing $2 to make and priced at $7. Assume that the discount rate is 14 percent and the tax rate is 34 percent. Should the company make the purchase?
2. Down Under Boomerang, Inc. is considering a new three-year expansion project that requires an initial fixed asset investment of $4,200,000. The fixed asset will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its three-year tax life, after which time it will be worthless. The project is estimated to generate $3,450,000 in annual sales, with costs of $1,612,500. The tax rate is 35 percent and the required return is 10 percent. What is the project’s NPV?
3. Symon Meats is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $245,000. The cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project’s five-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $30,000. The sausage system will save the firm $85,000 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $13,000. If the tax rate is 34 percent and the discount rate is 10 percent, what is the NPV of this project?
4. An asset is used in a four-year project falls in the five-year MACRS class for tax purposes. The asset has an acquisition cost of $8,600,000 and will be sold for $1,890,000 at the end of the project. If the tax rate is 35 percent, what is the after-tax salvage value of the asset?
5. Consider the following cash flows on two mutually exclusive projects. Year Project A Project B 0 -54,000 -64,000 1 26,000 29,000 2 32,000 38,000 3 19,000 23,000 The cash flows of Project A are expressed in real terms which those of Project B are expressed in nominal terms. The appropriate nominal discount rate is 11 percent and the inflation rate is 4 percent. Which project should you choose?
6. A proposed cost-saving device has an installed cost of $690,000. The device will be used in a five-year project but is classified as three-year MACRS property for tax purposes. The required initial net working capital investment is $40,000, the marginal tax rate is 35 percent, and the project discount rate is 12 percent. The device has an estimated year 5 salvage value of $65,000. What level of pretax cost savings do we require for this project to be profitable?