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Question -

-Kolby's Korndogs is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $655,000. This cost will be depreciated straightline to zero over the project's five-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $85,000. The sausage system will save the firm $183,000 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $35,000. If the tax rate is 22 percent and the discount rate is 8 percent, what is the NPV of this project?

-Proposals CSM Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its production efficiency. Buying a new machine press for $395,000 is estimated to result in $144,000 in annual pretax cost savings. The press falls in the MACRS five-year class, and it will have a salvage value at the end of the project of $45,000. The press also requires an initial investment in spare parts inventory of $15,000, along with an additional $2,000 in inventory for each succeeding year of the project. If the shop's tax rate is 22 percent and its discount rate is 11 percent, should the company buy and install the machine press?

-Automatic Transmissions, Inc., has the following estimates for its new gear assembly project: price = $940 per unit; variable cost = $340 per unit; fixed costs = $3.4 million; quantity = 53,000 units. Suppose the company believes all of its estimates are accurate only to within ±15 percent. What values should the company use for the four variables given here when it performs its best-case scenario analysis? What about the worst-case scenario?