A series of cash flows may not always necessarily be an annuity. Cash flows can also be uneven and variable in amount, but the concept of the time value of money will continue to apply.

Consider the following case:

The Purple Lion Beverage Company expects the following cash flows from its manufacturing plant in Palau over the next six years:

$\backslash$table$[[$Annual Cash Flows$],[$Year $1,$Year $2,$Year $3,$Year $4,$Year $5,$Year $6,],[$$$250,000,$$$37,500,$$$180,000,$$$300,000,$$$750,000,$$$725,000,]]$

The CFO of the company believes that an appropriate annual interest rate on this investment is $6\mathrm{.}5\%.$ What is the present value of this uneven cash flow stream, rounded to the nearest whole dollar? $($Note: Do not round your intermediate calculations.$)$

$$1,694,292$

$$467,500$

$$2,025,000$

$$2,242,500$

Identify whether the situations described in the following table are examples of uneven cash flows or annuity payments:

Description

Uneven Cash

Annuity

Flows

Payments

You recently moved to a new apartment and signed a contract to pay monthly rent to your landlord for a

year.

SOE Corp, hires an average of $10$ people every year and matches the contribution of each employee toward his or her retirement fund.

Franklinia Venture Capital $($FVC$)$ invested in a budding entrepreneur's restaurant. The restaurant owner promises to pay FVC $10\%$ of the profit each month for the next $10$ years.

You have committed to deposit $$600$ in a fxed interest$-$bearing account every quarter for four years.