$231$ point

A company has a plan for how to improve their throughput. This will allow the company to increase sales volume with no increase to fixed costs. Free cash flows from this improvement are forecasted as shown below and the company has a $9\mathrm{.}11\%$ cost of capital $($i$.$e$.,$ the required rate of return is $9\mathrm{.}11\%).$ There is no terminal value. The plan will require an initial outlay and require some downtime. What is the maximum cost the company should allow for this project?

$\backslash$table$[[$Year $0,$Year $1,$Year $2,$Year $3,$Year $4],[$Initial Investment,$$122,000,$$$136,000,$$$151,000,$$$180,000$