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A company manufactures stamped steel products. Increasingly, foreign producers are undercutting the company's price for these stampings, and the company is studying the technology of its production capacity to determine if it should be upgraded to become competitive with foreign firms. If production processes are automated, the net present value of the returns (net present value means that the returns are expressed in terms of today's dollars) to the company is dependent on the market for the plant's products:

Process

Market Level

Likelihood

Return

Automated

High

0.1

$4,000,000

 

Med

0.5

2,600,000

 

Low

0.4

1,500,000

If the company decides to do nothing now and review the situation in five years, two alternatives will probably be present then- continue operating with the existing production processes or shut the plant down and liquidate its assets. If the plant continues to be operated in its existing condition after five years, the net present value of the returns is dependent on the market for the plant's products at that time:

Alternative

Market Level

Likelihood

Return

Do nothing now, continue operating in existing conditions

High

0.3

$3,000,000

Med

0.4

2,500,000

Low

0.3

2,000,000

If the company shuts the plant down and liquidates its assents after five years, the net present value of the returns is estimated to be $2,000,000.

  1. Use a decision tree analysis and recommend a course of action for the company.
  2. What returns should the company actually expect from following your recommendations.

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