Jensen Systems purchases several parts for the instruments it makes via a fixed-price contract of $155,000 per
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Jensen Systems purchases several parts for the instruments it makes via a fixed-price contract of $155,000 per year from a local supplier. The new president of Jensen wants to make the parts inhouse through the purchase of equipment that will have a first cost of $240,000 with an estimated salvage value of $30,000 after 5 years. The AOC is difficult to estimate, but company engineers have made optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates of $70,000, $85,000, and $120,000 per year, respectively. Determine if the company should purchase the equipment under any of the operating cost scenarios. The MARR is 20% per year.
Salvage ValueSalvage value is the estimated book value of an asset after depreciation is complete, based on what a company expects to receive in exchange for the asset at the end of its useful life. As such, an asset’s estimated salvage value is an important... MARR
Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR), or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the opportunity cost of forgoing other...
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