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Conch Republic Electronics is a midsized electronicsmanufacturer located in Key West, Florida. The company president isShelley Couts, who inherited the company. When it was founded over70 years ago, the company originally repaired radios and otherhousehold appliances. Over the years, the company expanded intomanufacturing and is now a reputable manufacturer of variouselectronic items. Jay McCanless, a recent graduate, has been hiredby the company's finance department. One of the majorrevenue-producing items manufactured by Conch Republic is a smartphone. Conch Republic currently has one smart phone model on themarket, and sales have been excellent. The smart phone is a uniqueitem in that it comes in a variety of tropical colors and ispreprogrammed to play Jimmy Buffett music. However, as with anyelectronic item, technology changes rapidly, and the current smartphone has limited features in comparison with newer models. ConchRepublic spent $750,000 to develop a prototype for a new smartphone that has all the features of the existing smart phone butadds new features such as WiFi tethering. The company has spent afurther $200,000 for a marketing study to determine the expectedsales figures for the new smart phone. Conch Republic canmanufacture the new smart phones for $215 each in variable costs.Fixed costs for the operation are estimated to run $6.1 million peryear. The estimated sales volume is 155,000, 165,000, 125,000,95,000, and 75,000 per year for the next five years, respectively.The unit price of the new smart phone will be $520. The necessaryequipment can be purchased for $40.5 million and will bedepreciated on a seven-year MACRS schedule. It is believed thevalue of the equipment in five years will be $6.1 million. Networking capital for the smart phones will be 20 percent of salesand will occur with the timing of the cash flows for the year; forexample, there is no initial outlay for NWC, but changes in NWCwill first occur in Year 1 with the first year's sales. ConchRepublic has a 35 percent corporate tax rate and a required returnof 12 percent. Shelley has asked Jay to prepare a report thatanswers the following questions.Create Pro Forma Income Statement from YEAR 1 to 5 (Show EBITDAand EBIT).