Shalie Manufacturing makes several thousand different metal products, including building materials, tools, and furniture parts. The manager of the furniture parts division has proposed that his division expand into bicycle parts. The furniture parts division currently generates cash revenues of $5,000,000 and incurs cash costs of $3,550,000, with an investment in assets of $12,050,000. One-fourth of the cash costs are direct labor.

The manager estimates that the expansion of the business will require an investment in working capital of $25,000. Because the company already has a facility, there would be no additional rent or purchase costs for a building, but the project would require an additional $390,000 in annual cash overhead. Moreover, the manager expects annual materials cash costs for bicycle parts to be $1,300,000, and labor for the bicycle parts to be about the same as the labor cash costs for furniture parts.

The controller of Shalie, working with various managers, estimates that the expansion would require the purchase of equipment with a $2,575,000 cost and an expected disposal value of $370,000 at the end of its 7-year useful life. Depreciation would occur on a straight-line basis.

The CFO of Shalie determines the firm’s cost of capital as 14%. The CFO’s salary is $150,000 per year. Adding another division will not change that. The chief executive officer asks for a report on expected revenues for the project, and is told by the marketing department that it might be able to achieve cash revenues of $3,372,500 annually from bicycle parts. Shalie Manufacturing has a tax rate of 35%.

Required

1. Separate the cash flows into four groups: 

(a) Net initial investment cash flows, 

(b) Cash flows from operations, 

(c) Cash flows from terminal disposal of investment, and (d) cash flows not relevant to the capital budgeting problem.

2. Calculate the NPV of the expansion project and comment on your analysis.