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1.) (Net present value calculation) Big Steve's makers of swizzle sticks, is considering the
purchase of a new plastic stamping machine. This investment requires an initial outlay of $95,
000 and will generate net cash inflows of $17,000 per year for 8 years.
a. What is the project's NPV using a discount rate of 9 percent? Should the project be accepted?
Why or Why not?
b. What is the project's NPV using a discount rate of 17 percent? Should the project be accepted?
Why or Why not?
c. What is this project's internal rate of return? Should the project be accepted? Why or Why not?
2.) (IRR calculation) What is the internal rate of return for the following project: An initial outlay
of $9,500 resulting in a single cash inflow of $29,942 in 11 years?
3.) (NPV and IRR calculation) East Coast Television is considering a project with an initial
outlay of $X (you will have to determine this amount). It is expected that the project will produce
a positive cash flow of $44,000 a year at the end of each year for the next 13 years. The
appropriate discount rate for this project is 7 percent. If the project has an internal rate of return
of 9 percent, what is the project's net present value?
4.) (IRR and NPV calculation) The cash flows for three independent projects are found below.
PROJECT A PROJECT B PROJECT C
YEAR 0 (INITIAL INVESTMENT) $(60,000) $(105,000) $(420,000)
Year 1 $11,000 $29,000 $220,000
YEAR 2 17,000 $29,000 $220,000
YEAR 3 21,000 29,000 $220,000
YEAR 4 28,000 29,000 ________
Year 5 32,000 29,000 _________
a. Calculate the IRR for each of the projects
b. If the discount rate for all three projects is 15 percent, which projects or projects would you
want to undertake?
c. What is the net present value of each of the projects where the appropriate rate is 15 percent?
5. (IRR of an uneven cash flow stream) Microwave Oven Programming, Inc. is considering the
construction of a new plant. The plant will have an initial cash outlay of $6.4 million (=-$6.4
million), and will produce a cash flow of $2.7 million at the end of year 1, $4.2 million at the end
of year 2, and $1.8 million at the end of years 3 through 5. What is the internal rate of return on

this new plant?

6. (NPV, PI, and IRR calculations) Fijisawa, Inc. is considering a major expansion of its product
line and has estimated the following cash flows associated with such an expansion. The initial
outlay would be $1,850,000 and the project would generate cash flows of$520,000 per years.
The appropriate discount rate is 16.1 percent.
a. Calculate the net present value.
b. Calculate the profitability index
c. Calculate the internal rate of return.
d. Should this project be accepted? Why or why not?
7. (Payback period, net present value, profitability index, and internal rate or return calculations)
You are considering a project with an initial cash outlay of $81,000 and expected cash flows of
$25,110 at the end of each year for six years. The discount rate for this project is 10.3 percent.
a. What are the project's payback and discounted payback periods?
b. What is the project's NPV?
c. What is the project's PI?
d. What is the project's IRR?
8. (Calculating operation cash flows) Assume that a new project will annually generate revenues
of $1,800,000 and cash expenses (including both fixed and variable costs) of $700,000, while
increasing depreciation by $190,000 per year. In addition, the firm's tax rate is 29 percent.
Calculate the operating cash flows for the new project.
9. (Calculating project cash flows and NPV) You are considering expanding your product line
that currently consists of skateboards to include gas powered skateboards, and you feel
expanding your product line that currently consists of skateboards to include gas powered
skateboards, and you feel you can sell 11,000 of these per year for 10 years (after which time this
project is expected to shut down with solar-powered skateboards taking over). The gas
skateboards would sell for $90 each with variable of costs of $50 for each one produced, and
annual fixed costs associated with production would be $190,000.
a. What is the initial cash outlay associated with this project?
b. What are the annual net cash flows associated with this project for years 1 through 9?
c. What is the terminal cash flow in year 10 (that is, what is the free cash flow in year 10 plus
any additional cash flows associated with termination of the project)?
d. What is the project's NPV given a required rate of return of 7 percent?
10. (Inflation and project cash flows) Carlyle Chemicals is evaluating a new chemical compound
used in the manufacture of a wide range of consumer products. The firm is concerned that
inflation in the cost of raw materials will have an adverse effect on the project's flows.
Specifically, the firm expects the cost per unit (which is currently $0.87) will rise at a rate of 11
percent annually over the next three years. The per-unit selling price is currently $1.01 and this
price is expected to rise at a merger 1 percent annual rate over the next three years. If Carlyle
expects to sell 6, 7.5, and 10 million units for the next three years, respectively, what is your
estimate of the gross profits to the firm? Based on these estimates, what recommendation would
you offer to the firm's management with regard to this product? (Note: Be sure to round each unit

price and unit cost per year to the nearest cent.)

11. (Calculating the expected NPV of a project) Management at the Doctors Bone and Joint
Clinic is considering whether to purchase a newly developed MRI machine which they feel will
provide the basis for better diagnoses of foot and knee problems. The new machine is quite
expensive and will be used for a number of years. The clinic's CFO asked an analyst to work up
estimates of the NPV of the investment under three different assumptions about the level of
demand for its use (high, medium, and low). The CFO assigned a 50 percent probability to the
medium-demand state, a 30 percent probability to the high state, and the remaining 20 percent to
the low state. After making forecasts of the demand for the machine based on the CFO's
judgment and past utilization rates for MRI scans, the following NPV estimates were made:
Demand State Probability of State NPV Estimate
Low 20% $(300,000)
Medium 50% $200,000
High 30% $400,000
a. What is the expected NPV for the MRI machine based on the above estimates? How would
you interpret the meaning of the expected NPV? Does this look like a good investment to you?
b. Assuming that the probability of the medium-demand state remains 50 percent, calculate the
maximum probability you can assign to the low-demand state and still have an expected NPV of
0 or higher.
12. (Scenario analysis) Family Security is considering introducing tiny GPS trackers that can be
inserted in the sole of a child's shoe which would then allow for the tracking of that child if he or
she was ever lost or abducted. The estimates, that might be off by 10 percent (either above or
below), associated with this new product are shown here:
Data Table
Unit price: $125
Variable costs: $75
Fixed costs: $250,000 per year
Expected sales: 10,000 pr year
Since this is a new product line, you are not confident in your estimates and would like to know
how well you will fare if your estimates on the items listed above are 10 percent lower than
expected. Assume that this new product line will require an initial outlay of $1.00 million, with
no working capital investment, and will last for 10 years, being depreciated down to zero using
straight-line depreciation. In addition, the firm's required rate to return or cost of capital is 10.0
percent, and the firm's marginal tax rate is 34 percent. Calculate the project's NPV under the
"best-case scenario" Calculate the project's NPV under the "worst-case scenario."
13. (Real options and capital budgeting) You are considering introducing a new Tex-Mex-Thai
fusion restaurant. Upon closer examination, you find that there is a 50 percent chance that this
new restaurant will be well received and will produce annual cash flows of $805, 000 per year
forever (a perpetuity), while there is a 50 percent chance of it producing a cash flow of only
$191,000 per year forever, (a perpetuity) if it isn't well.

What is the expected NPV for this project if only one restaurant is built but isn't well received?
What is expected NPV for this project assuming 15 more are built if the first restaurant is well
received?
14. (Identifying spontaneous, temporary, and permanent sources of financing) Classify each of
the following sources of new financing as a spontaneous, temporary, or permanent:
a. A manufacturing firm enters into a loan agreement with its bank that calls for annual principal
and interest's payments spread over the next four years.
b. A retail firm orders new items of inventory that are charged to the firm's trade credit.
c. A trucking firm issues common stock to the public and used the proceeds to upgrade its tractor
fleet.
15. (Evaluating trade credit discounts) IF a firm buys on trade credit terms of 5/10, net 50 and
decides to forgo the trade credit discount and pay on the net day, what is the annualized costs of
forgoing the discount (assume a 360-day year)?

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