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1) Your company is considering a new project that will require $945,000 of new e

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1) Your company is considering a new project that will require $945,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of 10 years and will be depreciated to a book value of $145,000 using straight-line depreciation. The cost of capital is 13 percent, and the firm

1) Your company is considering a new project that will require $945,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of 10 years and will be depreciated to a book value of $145,000 using straight-line depreciation. The cost of capital is 13 percent, and the firm

Explanation / Answer

Hi,

The correct answers are as follows:

1 Annual Depreciation = (price of equipment-book value)/no. of useful years

= (945000-145000)/10

=$80000

Tax benefit = tax rate*annual dpreciation

=34%*80000

=$27200

Present Value:

Hence, the present value is $147593.82

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2. Accoring to CAPM model,

cost of equity = risk free rate + beta*(market risk-risk free rate)

cost of equity = 5%+1.1*(13.5%-5%)

=14.35%

Hence, 14.35% is the cost of equity

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3. After tax salvage value = salvage value -((salavage value-book value)*tax rate)

=123000-((123000-143000)*40%)

=$131000

hence, $131000 will be added to the cash flow

Year Cashflow Present Value 1 27200 24070.80 2 27200 21301.59 3 27200 18850.96 4 27200 16682.27 5 27200 14763.07 6 27200 13064.66 7 27200 11561.65 8 27200 10231.55 9 27200 9054.47 10 27200 8012.80 Present Value 147593.82