EBK FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE
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Chapter 10, Problem 29QP
Replacement Decisions [LO2] Your small remodeling business has two work vehicles. One is a small passenger car used for job-site visits and for other general business purposes. The other is a heavy truck used to haul equipment. The car gets 25 miles per gallon (mpg). The truck gets 10 mpg. You want to improve gas mileage to save money, and you have enough money to upgrade one vehicle. The upgrade cost will be the same for both vehicles. An upgraded car will get 40 mpg; an upgraded truck will get 12.5 mpg. The cost of gasoline is $3.70 per gallon. Assuming an upgrade is a good idea in the first place, which one should you upgrade? Both vehicles are driven 12,000 miles per year.
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The new proposed production line would generate profits of $150,000 per year
The new proposed production line requires an initial investment $80,000.
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LO2 16. Project Evaluation Your firm is contemplating the purchase of a new $395,000 computer-based order entry system. The system will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its five-year life. It will be worth $30,000 at the end of that time. You will save $125,000 before taxes per year in order processing costs, and you will be able to reduce working capital by $35,000 at the beginning of the project. Working capital will revert back to normal at the end of the project. If the tax rate is 21 Page 306 percent, what is the IRR for this project?LO2 17. Project Evaluation In the previous problem, suppose your required return on the project is 10 percent and your pretax cost savings are $135,000 per year. Will you accept the project? What if the pretax cost savings are only $95,000 per year?
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Health for All (“H4A”) is launching a new innovative hand sanitizer. However, due to intense research and development required to meet regulatory requirements, H4A wants to ensure they charge the correct price to recover all these costs.
Through their research they identified that if they charge $60 per bottle of sanitizer, 250 000 bottles will be demanded per year. They expect that the demand for sanitizers will fall in the next three years therefore they have estimated this product to have a life of 3 years.
Given the current Covid-19 pandemic, many other businesses are also selling hand sanitizers. Therefore the market that H4A wants to enter has a very high elastic demand. It has thus been observed that if H4A increases its price by $2, the demand will fall by 2 000 bottles while a reduction in price by the same amount will increase demand by 2 000 bottles as well.
The production of the sanitizers will incur the following costs per year at differing levels of production.…
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EBK FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE
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