Horngren's Cost Accounting, Student Value Edition (16th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134476032
Author: Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 21, Problem 21.33E
Selling a plant, income taxes. (CMA, adapted) The Cook Company is a national portable building manufacturer. Its Benton plant will become idle on December 31, 2017. Mary Carter, the corporate controller has been asked to look at three options regarding the plant:
- Option 1: The plant, which has been fully
depreciated for tax purposes, can be sold immediately for $750,000. - Option 2: The plant can be leased to the Timber Corporation, one of Cook’s suppliers, for 4 years. Under the lease terms, Timber would pay Cook $175,000 rent per year (payable at year-end) and would grant Cook a $60,000 annual discount from the normal price of lumber purchased by Cook. (Assume that the discount is received at year-end for each of the 4 years.) Timber would bear all of the plant’s ownership costs. Cook expects to sell this plant for $250,000 at the end of the 4-year lease.
- Option 3: The plant could be used for 4 years to make porch swings as an accessory to be sold with a portable building. Fixed overhead costs (a
cash outflow ) before any equipment upgrades are estimated to be $22,000 annually for the 4-year period. The swings are expected to sell for $45 each. Variable cost per unit is expected to be $22. The following production and sales of swings are expected: 2018, 12,000 units; 2019, 18,000 units: 2020, 15,000 units; 2021, 8,000 units. In order to manufacture the swings, some of the plant equipment would need to be upgraded at an immediate cost of $180,000. The equipment would be depreciated using thestraight-line depreciation method and zero terminal disposal value over the 4 years it would be in use. Because of the equipment upgrades, Cook could sell the plant for $320,000 at the end of 4 years. No change inworking capital would be required.
Cook Company treats all cash flows as if they occur at the end of the year, and uses an after-tax required
- 1. Calculate
net present value of each of the options and determine which option Cook should select using the NPV criterion.Required
- 2. What nonfinancial factors should Cook consider before making its choice?
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