Kolby’s Korndogs is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $882,000. This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project’s seven-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $97,000. The sausage system will save the firm $185,000 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $43,000.
Required: If the tax rate is 30 percent and the discount rate is 6 percent, what is the NPV of this project?