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Question

gproperty could be sold today (year O) to provide an after-tax cash flow from sale of $800, cash flow from o of $824,000 from the sale 000. If sold next year (year 1), the property is expected to generate after-tax w o oations of $24,000 and additionally provide an after-tax cash flow (A) What is the marginal rate of return for holding the property for an additional year and selling at the end of year 1? 824 000 + 20000x | +0,04%))-900 ,000 5.6 (B) As an alternative, the owner can instead forgo the sale and instead improve the property by investing $50,000 in year 0. That will increase the after-tax cash flow from operations to $50,000 per year. A sale at the end of year 3 will generate after tax cash flow from sale of $1,000,000. What is the internal rate of return (IRR) under this scenario?

Explanation / Answer

(A) The marginal rate of return for holding the property for an additional year and selling it at the end of year

= (After-tax cash flow from sale at year 1+ After tax cash flow from operations during the year - After-tax cash flow from sale at year 0)/ After-tax cash flow from sale at year 0

= ($824,000 + $24,000 - $800,000)/ $800,000

= $ 48,000 / $800,000

=0.06 or 6%

(B) Assume that property is hold for 3-years

Year

Initial After-tax Cash Flow from Property (A)

Additional After-Tax cash flow from property (B)

After-tax cash flow from sale at year 3 (C )

Total after-tax cash flow (A+B+C)

0

($800,000)

($50,000)

($850,000)

1

$24,000

$50,000

$74,000

2

$24,000

$50,000

$74,000

3

$24,000

$50,000

$1,000,000

$1,074,000

IRR

13.84%

The internal rate of return (IRR) is 13.84% [you can use excel also to calculate IRR “=IRR (cash flow values)”]

OR

You can use following formula to calculate internal rate of return (IRR)

Sum of [cash flows/ (1+IRR) ^t] - initial cash outflow = 0

Where,

Initial Outflow of Cash = -$850,000

Internal Rate of Return is IRR =?

Therefore

$74,000/ (1+IRR) ^1 + $74,000/ (1+IRR) ^2 + $1,074,000/ (1+IRR) ^3 - $850,000 = 0

By trial and error method, we get

The internal rate of return (IRR) = 13.84%

Year

Initial After-tax Cash Flow from Property (A)

Additional After-Tax cash flow from property (B)

After-tax cash flow from sale at year 3 (C )

Total after-tax cash flow (A+B+C)

0

($800,000)

($50,000)

($850,000)

1

$24,000

$50,000

$74,000

2

$24,000

$50,000

$74,000

3

$24,000

$50,000

$1,000,000

$1,074,000

IRR

13.84%