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2. Whole Foods is thinking about opening up a new, smaller location in a local m

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Question

2. Whole Foods is thinking about opening up a new, smaller location in a local mall (call it "Half Foods"). Equipment and fixtures will cost them $400,000 to be depreciated on a straight-line basis over five years to S0 (they will, however, have a salvage value at the end of the store of S100,000). Net working capital will need to be increased immediately by S500,000. First year sales are expected to be S1 million, and will increase at a rate of 8% per year over the ten-year life of the store. Expenses (excluding depreciation) will start at $850,000 the first year and grow at a 7% annual rate each year thereafter. The marginal tax e for each year fr : ! assume the working capital investment can be recovered at the end of year 10)

Explanation / Answer

The initial outlay = FCinv + WCinv
=400000 + 500000 = 900,000

Depreciation on SLM for 5 years to salvage value 100,000 = 400,000-100,000 / 5 = 300,000/5 = 60,000 per year

Terminal year cashflow = Salvage+WCinv - Tax*(salvage-book value)
=100,000+500,000 - 0.4*(100,000-0)
=600,000 - 40000
=560,000 (and this will be added to the final year cashflow)

Net after tax cash flows = (Sales-Cost-depreciation)*(1-tax)+depreciation

Increases at 8%

Increases at 7%

Sales-cost-depreciation*(1-tax)+depreciation

Year

Sales

Cost

Depreciation

After tax cashflow

0

-900000

1

1,000,000

850,000

60000

114000

2

1,080,000

909,500

60000

126300

3

1,166,400

973,165

60000

139941

4

1,259,712

1,041,287

60000

155055.27

5

1,360,489

1,114,177

60000

171787.4109

6

1,469,328

1,192,169

166,295

7

1,586,874

1,275,621

186,752

8

1,713,824

1,364,914

209,346

9

1,850,930

1,460,458

234,283

10

1,999,005

1,562,690

821,789


Increases at 8%

Increases at 7%

Sales-cost-depreciation*(1-tax)+depreciation

Year

Sales

Cost

Depreciation

After tax cashflow

0

-900000

1

1,000,000

850,000

60000

114000

2

1,080,000

909,500

60000

126300

3

1,166,400

973,165

60000

139941

4

1,259,712

1,041,287

60000

155055.27

5

1,360,489

1,114,177

60000

171787.4109

6

1,469,328

1,192,169

166,295

7

1,586,874

1,275,621

186,752

8

1,713,824

1,364,914

209,346

9

1,850,930

1,460,458

234,283

10

1,999,005

1,562,690

821,789

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