Reference no: EM132877245

Ideal Company owns a department store selling furniture and home furnishing. It is studying the feasibility of opening a new store. Ideal plans to run the store for only 3 years. The details relating to the project are as follows:

1. Additional working capital of $100,000 is required. This level is expected to remain the same until the end of the project.
2. Sales of the new store for the 3 years are $500,000, $550,000 and $600,000, respectively.
3. Lost sales of in main store due to opening of new store is $50,000 a year.
4. Rent and other expenses for the new store amount to $150,000 each year.
5. Cost of goods are 50% of sales.
6. Cost of market research done 1 year ago is $50,000.
7. Ideal plans to borrow $500,000 to finance this project. The bank will charge the same loan rate as the existing bank loan that the company has of $2 million. The bank charges the company a loan rate which consists of the risk-free rate and a risk premium of 2%.
8. Ideal has 1,000,000 common shares with a market price of $2 each. The stock has a beta of 1. Currently, the market risk premium is 5% while the risk-free rate is 3%.
9. Ideal pays a 20% tax rate.

Problem 1: Compute the NPV of the project using a discount rate of 10 %. Appraise whether the firm should go ahead with the project.