It is 2020 and Carpet Baggers Inc. is proposing to construct a new bagging plant in a
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It is 2020 and Carpet Baggers Inc. is proposing to construct a new bagging plant in a country in Europe. The two prime candidates are Germany and Switzerland. The forecast cash flows from the proposed plants are as follows:
The spot exchange rate for euros is USD1.3 = EUR1, while the rate for Swiss francs is CHF1.5 = USD1. The interest rate is 5% in the United States, 4% in Switzerland, and 6% in the euro countries. The financial manager has suggested that if the cash flows were stated in dollars, a return in excess of 10% would be acceptable.
a. What is the dollar NPV of the German project?
b. What is the dollar NPV of the Swiss project?
c. Should the company go ahead with the German project, the Swiss project, or neither?
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-1259722615
9th edition
Authors: Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Alan Marcus