Calculate the EAC for each machine

Assignment Help Financial Management

Reference no: EM131088066

Vandelay Industries is considering the purchase of a new machine for the production of latex. Machine A costs $3,138,000 and will last for six years. Variable costs are 40 percent of sales, and fixed costs are $275,000 per year. Machine B costs $5,364,000 and will last for nine years. Variable costs for this machine are 35 percent of sales and fixed costs are $210,000 per year. The sales for each machine will be $11.7 million per year. The required return is 11 percent, and the tax rate is 30 percent. Both machines will be depreciated on a straight-line basis. The company plans to replace the machine when it wears out on a perpetual basis. Calculate the EAC for each machine.

Reference no: EM131088066

Questions Cloud

Increase in return on sales : Consider each of the following independently: a. Increase in return on sales. b. Increase in cash dividends. c. Increase in the P-E ratio. d. Decrease in the interest coverage ratio. e. Decrease in the accounts receivable turnover. From management's ..

Debt and is expected to have free cash flow : Heavy Metal Corporation has $2 million in excess cash, $3.5 million in debt and is expected to have free cash flow of $12.5 million next year. Its FCF is then expected to grow at a rate of 2.5% forever. If Heavy Metal’s WACC is 10%, and it has 3.2 mi..

Calculate before-tax cost of debt and cost of equity : A firm uses only debt and common stock to finance their operations and maintains a debt-equity ratio of 0.8. Suppose the firm only issues one bond. The information is as follows: the face value of bond is 1,000. Coupon rate is 6%, paid semiannually. ..

Balance sheet net realizable amount of accounts receivable : The Isreal Manners Entertainment Group uses the allowance approach to estimate bad debt expense, as is reqired of all companies with signigicant sales on accounts receivable. What amount will be reported on the 2012 balance sheet as the net realizabl..

Calculate the EAC for each machine : Vandelay Industries is considering the purchase of a new machine for the production of latex. Machine A costs $3,138,000 and will last for six years. Variable costs are 40 percent of sales, and fixed costs are $275,000 per year. Both machines will be..

Estimate the first-year net operating cash flow : Eisenhower Communications is trying to estimate the first-year net operating cash flow (at Year 1) for a proposed project. The financial staff has collected the following information on the project: Sales revenues $15 million Operating costs (excludi..

Financial analysts estimate of wccs stock price : WCC has EBITDA of $4.2 million. A financial analyst feels that an appropriate EV/EBITDA ratio for WCC is 8.4. WCC has $4.5 million in debt, $1.2 million in cash and 640,000 shares outstanding. What is the financial analyst’s estimate of WCC’s stock p..

What are the cash flows in year one : What are the cash flows in year 1? What is the NPV of this project? What if sales are 10% higher than expected?

When the overhaul expense is included in the calculation : Consider the following proposed plant. The initial cost is $208 mm; however, ten (10) years after initiation, there will be a need for a major, one time only, overhaul which will cost $20 mm. If the ten (10) year overhaul is considered an extra expen..

User Account

All Pages