The following information is available about an investment


The following information is available about an investment opportunity. Investment will occur at time 0 and sales will commence at time 1. Initial Cost $28 million Unit Sales 400,000 Selling price per unit, this year $60.00 Variable cost per unit, this year $42.00 Life expectancy 8 years Salvage value $0 Depreciation Straight-line Tax rate 37% Nominal discount rate 10.0% Real discount rate 10.0% Inflation rate 0.0% a. Prepare a spreadsheet to estimate the project's annual after-tax cash flows. b. Calculate the investment's internal rate of return and its NPV. c. How do your answers to questions (a) and (b) change when you assume a uniform inflation rate of 8 percent a year over the next 10 =years? (Use the following equation to calculate the nominal discount rate: i (small) n = (1+i (small) r)(1+p)-1, where i (small) r is the real discount rate, and p is expected.) d. How do you explain the fact that inflation causes the internal rate of return to increase and the net present value to decrease? e. Does inflation make this investment more attractive or less attractive? Why?

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