7.17 The Biological Insect Control Corporation (BICC) has hired you as a consultant to evaluate the NPV of their proposed toad ranch. BICC plans to breed toads and sell them as ecologically desirable insect-control mechanisms. They anticipate that the business will continue in perpetuity. Following negligible start-up costs, BICC will incur the following nominal cash flows at the end of the year.

The company will lease machinery from a firm for $20,000 per year. (The lease payment starts at the end of year 1.) The payments of the lease are fixed in nominal terms. Sales will increase at 5 percent per year in real terms. Labor costs will increase at 3 percent per year in real terms. Other costs will decrease at 1 percent per year in real terms. The rate of inflation is expected to be 6 percent per year. The real rate of discount for revenues and costs is 10 percent. The lease payments are risk-free; therefore, they must be discounted at the risk-free rate. The real risk-free rate is 7 percent. There are no taxes. All cash flows occur at year-end. What is the NPV of BICC’s proposed toad ranch today?

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