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The information below is relevant for both projects:
All sales are expected to be cash sales, and all costs are expected to be paid for in cash as and when incurred.
Depreciation is charged on a straight-line basis over the economic life of each project.
Depreciation is the only adjustment difference between accounting profit and cash flows for each project.
Required:
(a)
(i) Calculate for each project the payback period (Assume that cash flows will occur evenly throughout the year).
(ii) Advise the management of Smith limited as to which to which project to select in (a) (i) above.
(b
(i) Calculate the NPV of Project B using a cost of capital of 9%. (Assume that all cash flows occur at the year-end).
(ii) Comment on the viability of the project.
(c) For Project B: calculate the breakeven point in sales revenue for year 3.
(d) In the third year of Project B, 700 units of the product were budgeted to be produced and sold.
(i) Calculate for the third year the unit cost of the product under marginal costing and absorption costing.
(ii) What would be the impact of the difference in unit costs calculated in (d) (i) on the year-end profit under the two costing methods?
(iii) If the production exceeds sales, explain which method would expect to show the higher profit, marginal costing or absorption costing.

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