Real versus Nominal Dollars. Your consulting firm will produce cash flows of $100,000 this year, and you expect cash flow to keep pace with any increase in the general level of prices. The interest rate currently is 8 percent, and you anticipate inflation of about 2 percent.

a. What is the present value of your firm’s cash flows for Years 1 through 5?

b. How would your answer to

(a) change if you anticipated no growth in cash flow?