Ms4 Solved Assignment

Free cash flows of the project for next five years can be calculated by adding depreciation values and subtracting changes in working capital from net income. In 2010, there will be a cash outflow of $2.2 million as capital expenditure. In 2011, there will be an additional one time cash outflow of $300,000 as an advertising expense. Using net free cash flow values for next five years and discount rate for discounting, NPV for the project comes out to be $2907, 100. The rate of return at which net present value becomes zero i.e.

Thus, the firm should sale 44,461.54 kg at retail price of 6.85 to achieve the same profit impact as selling 30 tons at retail price of 8.20.

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Review the sample syllabus and sample rubric under the questions below. Then, provide answers underneath the following questions:

INCLUDES SOLUTIONS INCLUDES MARKERS’ REPORTS This is a three (3) hour paper. You have ten (10) minutes reading time. There are seven (7) questions. There are eight (8) pages, including this one. You must answer all parts of all questions. The questions are not of equal value. All answers must be written in blue or black ink. Show all relevant working.

DUE Friday November 1, 2013– This project is due on November 1st before 4:00 pm and is to be submitted in the Accounting Lab – room 200 in the Rands House. The hours for submission of and help with the project will be posted on the class Blackboard site. You will sign your project in to create a record of its being submitted. Be sure your name and the name of your TA are on the front page of the project.

As Pleasure Craft Inc. has publicly held debt; we determined the cost of debt to be the yield to maturity on the outstanding debt on the outboard motor project, so using a financial calculator we establish the YTM to be equal to 2.4827%. Because this is a Semi- annual compounding, rd = YTM * 2 = 4.9654%; for the cost of equity (Rf + β (Rm - Rf)): 12.8420%. The WACC is the discount rate of the projects WACC = rd * (1- Td) * D/V + (re * E/ V) = 4.9654% (1- 35%) * 30% + 12.8420% * 70% = 0.0996, so the WACC is determined to be 9.96% for outboard motors project. The NPV of this project is positive and equal to $35,630,973.63, the IRR for the outboard motors has calculated to be 8%. From these calculation we can know the project’s beta is lower than project front- end loader project and the risk is lower also; from the decision rule the NPV > 0 and IRR > R, so we choose the outboard motor project.

General Foods is a large corporation organized by product lines. They are evaluating Super Project, the manufacture of a new powdered dessert. Crosby Sanberg, a financial analysis manager, must determine the value in accepting the proposal, along with J.C. Kresslin, the Corporate Controller. The Super Project will increase profit with a payback period of less than ten years. The proposed capital investment for the project is $200,000 ($80,000 for building modifications and $120,000 for machinery and equipment) and production would take place

"a. If each project's cost of capital is 12%, which project should be selected? If the cost of capital is 18%, what

5) Consider two mutually exclusive R&D projects that AMD, a chip manufacturer, is considering. Assume the corporate discount rate is 15 per cent and the minimum acceptable IRR is 25 per cent.

The two projects, Merseyside and Rotterdam, are mutually exclusive because accepting one project will result in a higher level of output at that plant, but will incur a loss at the other plant. By accepting both projects the company, Diamond Chemicals, would achieve a 14% increase in output. However, based on forecasted demand by strategic analysts, the 14% increase does not make sense, but an increase of 7% does. Therefore both these projects seem to be mutually exclusive because each would attain the 7% increase.

The present value of the net incremental cash flows, totaling $5,740K, is added to the present value of the Capital Cost Allowance (CCA) tax shield, provided by the Plant and Equipment of $599K, to arrive at the project’s NPV of $6,339K. (Please refer to Exhibit 4 and 5 for assumptions and detailed NPV calculations.) This high positive NPV means that the project will add a significant amount of value to FMI. In addition, using the incremental cash flows (excluding CCA) generated by the NPV calculation, we calculated the project’s IRR to be 28%. This means that the project will generate a higher rate of return than the company’s cost of capital of 10.05%. This is also a positive indication that the company should undertake the project.

a. Assuming the most current operational cost levels, what sales must it generate to recoup the above investment?

After calculating the Total Cash Flow for all three scenarios, the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) for the project can be calculated as well. See Question 3 for details regarding WACC calculation. The IRR and NPV for each scenario are shown in Table 4 below:

Please discuss the possibilities of increasing Kamp’s profit by using the formula for basic cost per unit and by reorganizing. Please use a concrete example to indicate how the board of Kamp can manipulate the unit costs for the types 2, 3, and 4 by reorganizing its cost information system. How, do you think, can the boards of the Vecu concern and the MB division determine whether Kamp manipulates data on unit costs?