Calculating Present Value.....

Martha Reagan expects to receive a $630,000 cash benefit when she retires six years from today. Ms. Reagans employer has offered an early retirement incentive by agreeing to pay her $352,000 today if she agrees to retire immediately. Ms. Reagan desires to earn a rate of return of 12 percent. (PV of $1 and PVA of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Do not use a factor from a table in a different question, from the book, or from a calculator.)

The answers I came up were (a-1) Present Value = $319,178 and (a-2) Yes

TABLE 1 Present Value of $1 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 12% 14% 16% 20% 1 0.961538 0.952381 0.943396 0.934579 0.925926 0.917431 0.909091 0.892857 0.877193 0.862069 0.833333 2 0.924556 0.907029 0.889996 0.873439 0.857339 0.841680 0.826446 0.797194 0.7694680.743163 0.694444 3 0.888996 0.863838 0.839619 0.816298 0.793832 0.772183 0.751315 0.711780 0.674972 0.640658 0.578704 4 0.854804 0.822702 0.792094 0.762895 0.735030 0.708425 0.683013 0.635518 0.592080 0.552291 0482253 5 0.821927 0.783526 0.747258 0.712986 0.680583 0.649931 0.620921 0.567427 0.519369 0.476113 0401878 6 0.790315 0.746215 0.704961 0.666342 0.630170 0.596267 0.564474 0.5066 0455587 0.410442 0.334898 7 0.759918 0.710681 0.665057 0.622750 0.583490 0.547034 0.513158 0.452349 0.399637 0.353830 0.279082 8 0.730690 0.676839 0.627412 0.582009 0.540269 0.501866 0.466507 0.403883 0.3505590.305025 0.232568 9 0.702587 0.644609 0.591898 0.543934 0.500249 0.460428 0424098 0.360610 0.3075080.262953 0.193807 10 0.675564 0.613913 0.558395 0.508349 0.463193 0.422411 0.385543 0.321973 0.269744 0.226684 0.161506 11 0.649581 0.584679 0.526788 0.475093 0.428883 0.387533 0.350494 0.287476 0.236617 0.195417 0.134588 12 0.624597 0.556837 0.496969 0.444012 0.397114 0.355535 0.318631 0.256675 0.207559 0.168463 0.112157 13 0.600574 0.530321 0.468839 0.414964 0.367698 0.326179 0.289664 0.229174 0.182069 0.145227 0.093464 14 0.577475 0.505068 0442301 0.387817 0.34046 0.299246 0.26333 0204620 0.159710 0.125195 0.077887 15 0.555265 0.481017 0417265 0.362446 0.315242 0.274538 0.239392 0.182696 0.140096 0.107927 0.064905 5 16 0.533908 0.458112 0.393646 0.338735 0.291890 0.251870 0.217629 0.163122 0.122892 0.093041 0054088 17 0.513373 0.436297 0.371364 0.316574 0.270269 0.231073 0.197845 0.145644 0.107800 0.080207 0.045073 18 0.493628 0.415521 0.350344 0.295864 0.250249 0.211994 0.179859 0.130040 0.094561 0.069144 0.037561 19 0.474642 0.395734 0.330513 0.276508 0.231712 0.194490 0.163508 0.116107 0.082948 0.059607 0.031301 20 0.456387 0.376889 0.311805 0.258419 0.214548 0.178431 0.148644 0.103667 0.072762 0.051385 0.026084