6. (Note, for this question, you may find information from the live session in Module 4 useful.) You are making a decision about purchasing a new car. You can choose between an electric vehicle that requires very high upfront costs, a somewhat cheaper hybrid vehicle and a traditional gasoline powered vehicle. Your discount rate for future cash flows is 10%. The upfront cost of each car is: Electric: $80,000 Hybrid: $60,000 Gas: $45,000 In the first year you estimate the running costs (including fuel, insurance, maintenance etc.) to be: Electric: $2,000 Hybrid: $5,000 Gas: $7,500 You assume that these costs will increase at an inflation rate of 5%. That is, year 2 costs will be 5% higher than year 1 costs and year 3 costs will be 5% higher than year 2 costs. a) You plan to keep the car for 10 years. For each car, calculate the present value of your costs. Which one ends costing less in present value terms? (1 pt) b) If instead you wanted to replace the car after 5 years, what would now cost less in present value terms? (0.5 pts) c) What do you think are the limitations of this present value approach? Is there anything else you would like to consider when making this decision? (0.5 pts)

6. (Note, for this question, you may find information from the live session in Module 4 useful.) You are making a decision about purchasing a new car. You can choose between an electric vehicle that requires very high upfront costs, a somewhat cheaper hybrid vehicle and a traditional gasoline powered vehicle. Your discount rate for future cash flows is 10%. The upfront cost of each car is: Electric: $80,000 Hybrid: $60,000 Gas: $45,000 In the first year you estimate the running costs (including fuel, insurance, maintenance etc.) to be: Electric: $2,000 Hybrid: $5,000 Gas: $7,500 You assume that these costs will increase at an inflation rate of 5%. That is, year 2 costs will be 5% higher than year 1 costs and year 3 costs will be 5% higher than year 2 costs. a) You plan to keep the car for 10 years. For each car, calculate the present value of your costs. Which one ends costing less in present value terms? (1 pt) b) If instead you wanted to replace the car after 5 years, what would now cost less in present value terms? (0.5 pts) c) What do you think are the limitations of this present value approach? Is there anything else you would like to consider when making this decision? (0.5 pts)

Principles of Accounting Volume 2

19th Edition

ISBN:9781947172609

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter3: Cost-volume-profit Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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