4.3 Bernese pic develops and manufactures crits for businesses operating in the oil and gas industry. Although it is committed to maximising the wealth of its shareholders, thes has incured heavy losses over recent years. A new chief executive has now been appo to revive the flagging fortunes of the business. As part of the revival process been ordered of all projects involving new drills that were either stil being devedor were already developed and about to be launched Project XK150 began in Year 6 and has incured costs of 4 million, to date, deveping and testing a new drill for use in offshore oil rigs. The project had experienced problems and the drill has taken longer than expected to develop but it will be yo market from December Year 7. The new drill is expected to generate sales over a four-ar period, after which it will be replaced with an improved version 192 CHAPTER 4 MAKING CARITAL INVESTMENT DECISIONS The manager of Project XK150 has produced the following calculations to aid the review process Year to 30 November Revenue 183 225 126 72 Salary and wages (12.7) 144 Materials and components 03) GE Overheads 14 AB Depreciation 0.0 20 Development costs 01.0 Interest charges on lo 15 11.5 0505 Profess 30.0 The manager of Project X0C150 mayed by the above results and believe that the chief executive will call an immediate hat to the proposed launch when the ented to him. Before making the presentation, however, the project ma you to check the figures that he has produced When going through the figures, you find the following The materials and components are already held in inventories and were purchased specifically for producing the new drils. The materials and components are highly spe cialised and cannot be used for any other project. They have no ready market e and, if the new drills are not manufactured, the materials and components will have to T cent of the amount shown in each period account for only 25 per The depreciation charge relates to existing plant and equipment which will be T for the manufacture of the new drills. This plant and equipment has acumentarying book value of 8.0 million and a curent reale value of 06.0 million the project goes ahead, the plant and equipment will be sold for 20 million at the end of the pro- v) Working capital of C2.5 million will be required immediately and will be released at the end of the four-year period of the life of the new The development costs relate to the costs incurred during the period up to 30 Year 7. It is the policy of the company to write off development costs in equal a instalments over the period in which revenues are generated m (v) Interest charges arise from a loan that was taken out to help finance the deve and manufacture of the new dri You can assume the calculations provided by the manager of Project X150 contain no The business has a cost of capital of 10 percent EXCES 193