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Orange Valley Shipping is considering a project that would lastfor 2 years. The project would involve an initial investment of84,000 dollars for new equipment that would be sold for an expectedprice of 76,000 dollars at the end of the project in 2 years. Theequipment would be depreciated to 24,000 dollars over 6 years usingstraight-line depreciation. In years 1 and 2, relevant annualrevenue for the project is expected to be 73,000 dollars per yearand relevant annual costs for the project are expected to be 20,000dollars per year. The tax rate is 50 percent and the cost ofcapital for the project is 6.11 percent. What is the net presentvalue of the project?

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Time line		0	1	2



Cost of new machine		-84000

=Initial Investment outlay		-84000

					100.00%
Sales			73000	73000
Profits	Sales-variable cost		53000	53000


-Depreciation	(Cost of equipment-salvage value)/no. of years		-10000	-10000	64000	=Salvage Value

=Pretax cash flows			43000	43000
-taxes	=(Pretax cash flows)*(1-tax)		21500	21500
+Depreciation			10000	10000
=after tax operating cash flow			31500	31500



+Proceeds from sale of equipment after tax	=selling price* ( 1 -tax rate)			38000
+Tax shield on salvage book value	=Salvage value * tax rate			32000
=Terminal year after tax cash flows				70000

Total Cash flow for the period		-84000	31500	101500
Discount factor=	(1+discount rate)^corresponding period	1	1.0611	1.1259332
Discounted CF=	Cashflow/discount factor	-84000	29686.17472	90147.443
NPV=	Sum of discounted CF=	35833.61784

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Orange Valley Shipping is considering a project that would lastfor 2 years. The project would involve an initial investment of84,000 dollars for new equipment that would be sold for an expectedprice of 76,000 dollars at the end of the project in 2 years. Theequipment would be depreciated to 24,000 dollars over 6 years usingstraight-line depreciation. In years 1 and 2, relevant annualrevenue for the project is expected to be 73,000 dollars per yearand relevant annual costs for the project are expected to be 20,000dollars per year. The tax rate is 50 percent and the cost ofcapital for the project is 6.11 percent. What is the net presentvalue of the project?