Alternative Project Evaluation Measures: Branding Irons, Inc., is a manufacturer of western hats. The company has an opportunity to expand production by purchasing a new automatic hat bander. The bander costs $200,000 and is fully depreciable for tax purposes using the straight-line method over a four-year life. The machine will have no salvage value. No additional working capital is required. The bander will result in cost savings of $80,000 per year. The company has a tax rate of 45 percent. 

Required: Compute the following investment evaluation measures for the bander: 

a. Payback period. b. Internal rate of return (using a calculator, computer, or trial and error and interpolation). c. Accounting rate of return on the initial investment.