Colin was recently hired by Coleman Electronics as a junior budget analyst. He is working for the Venture Capital Division and has been given for capital budgeting projects to evaluate. He must give his analysis and recommendation to the capital budgeting committee.

Colin has a B.S. in accounting from XXX (2007) and passed the CPA exam (2008). He has been in public accounting for 2 years. During that time he earned an MBA from Seattle U. He would like to be the CFO of a company someday--maybe Coleman Electronics-- and this is an opportunity to get onto that career track and to prove his ability.

As Colin looks over the financial data collected, he is trying to make sense of it all. He already has the most difficult part of the analysis complete -- the estimation of cash flows. Through some internet research and application of finance theory, he has also determined the firm