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Question - Michigan Health Center, a for-profit hospital, is evaluating the purchase of new diagnostic equipment. The equipment, which costs $600,000, has an expected life of five years and an estimated pretax salvage value of $200,000 at that time. The equipment is expected to be used 15 times a day for 250 days a year for each year of the project's life. On average, each procedure is expected to generate $80 in collections, which is net of bad debt losses and contractual allowances, in its first year of use. Thus, net revenues for Year 1 are estimated at 15 X 250 X $80 = $300,000.
Labor and maintenance costs are expected to be $100,000 during the first year of operation, while utilities will cost another $10,000 and cash overhead will increase by $5,000 in Year 1. The cost for expendable supplies is expected to average $5 per procedure during the first year. All costs and revenues, except depreciation, are expected to increase at a 5 percent inflation rate after the first year.
The equipment falls into the MACRS five-year class for tax depreciation and hence is subject to the following depreciation allowances:
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Year
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Allowance
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1
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0.20
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2
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0.32
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3
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0.19
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4
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0.12
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5
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0.11
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6
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0.06
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1.00
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The hospital's tax rate is 30 percent, and its corporate cost of capital is 10 percent.
Required -
A. Estimate the projects net cash flows over its five-year estimated life. (Hint: Use the following format as a guide.
B. What are the project's NPV and IRR? (Assume for now that the project has average risk.)
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