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1. Karsted Air Services is now in the final year of a project. The equipment originally cost $27 million, of which 100% has been depreciated. Karsted can sell the used equipment today for $10 million, and its tax rate is 30%. What is the equipment's after-tax salvage value? Write out your answer completely. For example, 13 million should be entered as 13,000,000. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
2-You must evaluate the purchase of a proposed spectrometer for the R&D department. The purchase price of the spectrometer including modifications is $150,000, and the equipment will be fully depreciated at the time of purchase. The equipment would be sold after 3 years for $21,000. The equipment would require an $11,000 increase in net operating working capital (spare parts inventory). The project would have no effect on revenues, but it should save the firm $21,000 per year in before-tax labor costs. The firm's marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 25%.
A. What is the initial investment outlay for the spectrometer, that is, what is the Year 0 project cash flow? Enter your answer as a positive value. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
B. What are the project's annual cash flows in Years 1, 2, and 3? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest dollar.
-Year 1: $
-Year 2: $
-Year 3: $
3. The Dauten Toy Corporation uses an injection molding machine that was purchased prior to the new tax legislation. This machine is being depreciated on a straight-line basis, and it has 6 years of remaining life. Its current book value is $2,400, and it can be sold for $2,600 at this time. Thus, the annual depreciation expense is $2,400/6 = $400 per year. If the old machine is not replaced, it can be sold for $500 at the end of its useful life.
Dauten is offered a replacement machine which has a cost of $8,000, an estimated useful life of 6 years, and an estimated salvage value of $800. The replacement machine is eligible for 100% bonus depreciation at the time of purchase. The replacement machine would permit an output expansion, so sales would rise by $1,000 per year; even so, the new machine's much greater efficiency would cause operating expenses to decline by $1,500 per year. The new machine would require that inventories be increased by $2,500, but accounts payable would simultaneously increase by $800. Dauten's marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 25%, and its WACC is 11%.
What is the NPV of the incremental cash flow stream? Negative value, if any, should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answer to the nearest cent.