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Mississippi River Shipyards is considering the replacement of an8-year-old riveting machine with a new one that will increaseearnings before depreciation from $24,000 to $48,000 per year. Thenew machine will cost $82,500, and it will have an estimated lifeof 8 years and no salvage value. The new machine will bedepreciated over its 5-year MACRS recovery period; so theapplicable depreciation rates are 20%, 32%, 19%, 12%, 11%, and 6%.The applicable corporate tax rate is 40%, and the firm's WACC is18%. The old machine has been fully depreciated and has no salvagevalue.
What is the NPV of the project? Round your answer to the nearestcent.
$
Should the old riveting machine be replaced by the newone?
-Select-
YesNo

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Time line		0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8



Cost of new machine		-82500

=Initial Investment outlay		-82500

5 years MACR rate			20.00%	32.00%	19.20%	11.52%	11.52%	5.76%	0.00%	0.00%

Profits			24000	24000	24000	24000	24000	24000	24000	24000


-Depreciation	=Cost of machine*MACR%		-16500	-26400	-15840	-9504	-9504	-4752	0	0

=Pretax cash flows			7500	-2400	8160	14496	14496	19248	24000	24000
-taxes	=(Pretax cash flows)*(1-tax)		4500	-1440	4896	8697.6	8697.6	11548.8	14400	14400
+Depreciation			16500	26400	15840	9504	9504	4752	0	0
=after tax operating cash flow			21000	24960	20736	18201.6	18201.6	16300.8	14400	14400




+Tax shield on salvage book value	=Salvage value * tax rate									0
=Terminal year after tax cash flows										0

Total Cash flow for the period		-82500	21000	24960	20736	18201.6	18201.6	16300.8	14400	14400
Discount factor=	(1+discount rate)^corresponding period	1	1.18	1.3924	1.643032	1.9387778	2.2877578	2.6995542	3.185474	3.7588592
Discounted CF=	Cashflow/discount factor	-82500	17796.61	17925.88	12620.57	9388.1828	7956.0871	6038.3304	4520.52	3830.9496
NPV=	Sum of discounted CF=	-2422.87

Reject project as NPV is negative

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Replacement analysisMississippi River Shipyards is considering the replacement of an8-year-old riveting machine with a new one that will increaseearnings before depreciation from $24,000 to $48,000 per year. Thenew machine will cost $82,500, and it will have an estimated lifeof 8 years and no salvage value. The new machine will bedepreciated over its 5-year MACRS recovery period; so theapplicable depreciation rates are 20%, 32%, 19%, 12%, 11%, and 6%.The applicable corporate tax rate is 40%, and the firm's WACC is18%. The old machine has been fully depreciated and has no salvagevalue.What is the NPV of the project? Round your answer to the nearestcent.$ Should the old riveting machine be replaced by the newone?-Select-YesNo