Celestila Moonn is looking at the capital budgeting analysis for her firm. Her firm, SchoolStreet, is considering in upgrading the firms production capacity in an effort to improve the companys competitive position. Moonn is being assisted by Amy Sun, an UMB MBA intern at SchoolStreet. While evaluating the capital budgeting analysis, Sun gathered the data below:

Sun estimates that the new HP-450N2 copy machine will costs $335,000 and an additional $165,000 is needed for shipping and install it. The HP-450N2 will be depreciated straight-line to zero over a five-year life. The HP-450N2 will generate additional annual revenues of $295,000, and it will have annual cash operating expenses of $113,000.

SchoolStreet borrowed $200,000 to purchase the equipment. The discount rate for this Capital budgeting is 10%. The firm's inventories would have to be increased by $65,000 to handle the new line; however, its accounts payable would rise by $28,000. The HP-450N2 will be sold for $95,000 after five years

The firm's tax rate is 40%

Factor -1: Before making the final calculations, Moon and Sun discussed the net present value analysis for the projects SchoolStreet is considering. Moonn tells Sun that we should include any financial flows such as interest expense or dividends paid to the investors who furnished the capital for the project under consideration.

Factor -2: Moonn was not sure whether Suns estimated depreciable lives of 5-year was correct and the straight-line depreciation method is appropriate for this project and was wondering what would have been the impact on NPV had Sun used 7-year depreciable lives and 5-MARCS depreciation schedule instead of 5-year straight-line method?

Factor -3: Moonn also tells Sun that we should include the revitalization cost of $100,000 in the capital budgeting analysis that SchoolStreet had spent last year to revitalize the production line site.

With respect to Moons concerns in Factor 1, was Moonn correct to include interest expense in the capital budgeting analysis?

A. Yes, if 10% borrowing cost of capital was not included on the analysis, net income and operating cash flows would have been reduced and the income tax would have been higher.

B. No, the return required by the investors provided the capital is already accounted for when we applied the 10 % discount rate, as a result, including financing cash flows would be double counted.