Explain how simulation works

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Mini Case

It's been 2 months since you took a position as an assistant financial analyst at Caledonia Products. Although your boss has been pleased with your work, he is still a bit hesitant about unleashing you without supervision. Your next assignment involves both the calculation of the cash flows associated with a new investment under consideration and the evaluation of several mutually exclusive projects. Given your lack of tenure at Caledonia, you have been asked not only to provide a recommendation but also to respond to a number of questions aimed at judging your understanding of the capital-budgeting process. The memorandum you received outlining your assignment follows:

To: The Assistant Financial Analyst

From: Mr. V. Morrison, CEO, Caledonia Products

Re: Cash Flow Analysis and Capital Rationing

We are considering the introduction of a new product. Currently we are in the 34 percent marginal tax bracket with a 15 percent required rate of return or cost of capital. This project is expected to last 5 years and then, because this is somewhat of a fad product, be terminated. The following information describes the new project:

Cost of new plant and equipment $7,900,000

Shipping and installation costs $100,000

Unit sales:

YEAR UNITS SOLD

1 70,000

2 120,000

3 140,000

4 80,000

5 60,000

Sales price per unit: $300/unit in years 1 through 4, $260/unit in year 5

Variable cost per unit $180/unit

Annual fixed costs: $200,000

Working-capital requirements

There will be an initial working-capital requirement of $100,000 just to get production started. For each year, the total investment in net working capital will be equal to 10 percent of the dollar value of sales for that year. Thus, the investment in working capital will increase during years 1 through 3, then decrease in year 4. Finally, all working capital is liquidated at the termination of the project at the end of year 5.

The depreciation method

Use the simplified straight-line method over 5 years. Assume that the plant and equipment will have no salvage value after

a. Draw a cash flow diagram for this What is the terminal cash flow?

b. What are the differential cash flows over the project's life?

c. What is the project's initial outlay?.

d. How do sunk costs affect the determination of cash flows?

e. How does depreciation affect free cash flows?

f. Should Caledonia focus on cash flows or accounting profits in making its capital-budgeting decisions?

g. Should the company be interested in incremental cash flows, incremental profits, total free cash flows, or total profits?

h. What is its net present value?

i. What is its internal rate of return?

j. Should the project be accepted? Why or why not?

k. In capital budgeting, risk can be measured from three perspectives. What are those three measures of a project's risk?

l. According to the CAPM, which measurement of a project's risk is relevant? What complications does reality introduce into the CAPM view of risk, and what does that mean for our view of the relevant measure of a project's risk?

m. Explain how simulation works. What is the value in using a simulation approach?

n. What is sensitivity analysis and what is its

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