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Project e Merseyside
..No one Lucy Morris, Late one afternoon in January 2001, Frank Greystock told could kill the projseemssatisfied with the analysis so far, but the suggestedchanges swim past the cofporate piranhas, the company ect. If solid projects like this can't will never modernize." Morris w a sp l a n tma n a g e ro fD i a mo ndC hemi cal s' Merseysi deW o r ksi nLi ver pool,England.Hercontroller,FrankGreystock,wasdiscussingacapitalprojectthat of a (British Morris wanted to propose to senior management.The project consisted polypropylene propounds) f,9-million expenditure to renovate and rationalize the plant in order to make up for deferred maintenance iuction line at the Meiseyside and to exploit opportunities to achieve increased production efficiency' its finanDiamond chemicals was under pressure from investors to improve the worldwide economic slowdown and the accucial performancebecauseof both raider, Sir David mulation of the firm's common sharesby a well-known corporate fallen to f30.00 at the end of 2000 from around Benjamin. Earnings per share had was ripe to obtain [60:00 at the end of 1999. Morris thus believed that the time for a modernization program for the Merseyside funding from corporate headquarlers with several quesWorkslat least she had believed so until Greystock presentedher tions that had only recently surfaced'
to illustrate effective or inprepared by Roberl F. Bmner as a basis for class discussion rather than rt.1-*u. Diamond Chemicals is a lictional company reflecting the issues effective handling of an administrative situation. of Dr' Frank H' McTigue' the literfacing actual {irms. The author wishes to acknowledge the helpful comments @ iinancial support of the citicorp Global Scholars Program' copyright ary color ofAnthony Trollope, and the rights reserved'To order vA' A11 by tlr" uniuersity ofVirginia Darden School Foundation,Charlottesville, 2001 this publication may b-ereproduced'stored in copies,sendan e-mtil to sati@dardenpublishing.com.No part of ctretrievalsystem,usedinaspreadsheet,ortransmitterlinanyformorbyanymeans-electronic,mechanical, pllotocopying,recording,orothenvise-withoutthepetmissionoftheDardenSchoolFoundation.
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manubenefits would be a lower energy requirementr as well as a 7 percent greater the project was expected to improve gross margin facturing throughput. In addition, (before depreciationand energy savings) from 11.5 percent to 12.5 percent. The engineering group at Merseyside was highly confident that the efficiencies would be reahzed' Mirseyside currently produced 250,000 metric tons of polypropylene pellets a year. Currently, the price of polypropylene averaged L54I per ton for Diamond analyseswas bhemicals' product mix. The tax rate required in capital-expenditure that any plant facilities to be replaced had been 30 percent. Greystock discovered basis2 completely depreciated.New assetscould be depreciatedon an accelerated The increasedthroughputwould necesof the assets. ou"i15 years,the expectedlife percent sitate a one-time increaseof work-in-processinventory equal in value to 3'0 in the first year of his forecastpreliminary engiof cost of goods.Greystockincluded on neering coits of f500,000, which had been spent over the precedingnine months the renovation.Finally, the corporatemanual stipuefficiency and design studies of percent lated that overhead costs be reflected in project analyses at the rate of 3'5 acquired in the project per year'times the book value of assets G rey s to ckh a d p ro d u ce d th e d i sco unted.cash-fl ow (D C F)S ummarygi veni n ChemExhibit 2. It suggestedthat the capital program would easily hurdle Diamond percent for engineering projects' icals' required return of 10
be the energy savings as a percentageof sales and assumedthat the savings would ',Cr"y.*t "t ^racterized 0.75 percent in years 6-1 0' Thereafter' without added equai to 1.25 percent of sales in the first 5 years and old level, and the savings aggressive"gieen" spending, the energy efficiency of the plant would revert to its further environmentally oriented investments was a would be zero. He believed that the decision to make to include such beneiits (of a separatechoice (and one that should be made much later) and, therefore, that considered today would be inapproprlate' presumably later investment decision) in the project being 2The company,s capital-sxpenditure manual suggestedthe use of double-declining-balance (DDB) depreciacode The reason for this tion, even though other more aggressiveproceduresmight be permitted by the tax based on tax provisions that could apply differpolicy was to discouragejoct"ying for corporate approvals the controller's staff would ently fbr dift-erentprolects and div:isions.Prior to senior-management'sapproval, that might apply. Division managers,however, were present an independent analysis of special tax effects to a 15-year project, the iidcouraged from relying heavily on those effects. ln applying the DDB approach first 10 years, after which depreciation was calculated formula for accelerateddepreciation was used for the that the assetwould deprecion a straight-line basis. This convelsion to straight line was commonly done so ate fully within its economic life. sThe corporate-policy manual stated that new projects should be able to sustain a reasonableproportion of those expensesand corporate overhead expense.Projects that were so marginal as to be unable to Sustain shouid not be undertaken' Thus, all new capital projalso meet the Othercriteria of investment attractiveness of the initial assetinvestects should reflect an annual pretax charge amounting to 3.5 percent of the value ment for the ProJect.
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