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Cardinal Company is considering a five-year project that would require a $2,805,000 investment in equipment with a useful life of five years and no salvage value. The company's discount rate is 14%. The project would provide net operating income in each of five years as follows:
Sales
Variable expenses
Contribution margin
Fixed expenses:
$2,741,000
1,125,000
1,616,000
Advertising, salaries, and other
fixed out-of-pocket costs $642,000
Depreciation ,$561,000
Total fixed expenses
Net operating income
[1,203,000],[413,000]
Click here to view Exhibit 14B-1 and Exhibit 14B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using table.
15. Assume a postaudit showed that all estimates (including total sales) were exactly correct except for the variable expense ratio, which actually turned out to be 50%. What was the project's actual simple rate of return? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Simple rate of return
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