Companies invest in expansion projects with the expectation of increasing the earnings of its business. Consider the case of Happy Dog Soap Happy Dog Soap is considering an investment that will have the following sales, variable costs, and wed operating costs: Year 2 Year 4 Year 1 Unit sales (units) 1,200 Sales price $29.82 Variable cost per unit $12.15 Foed operating costs except deprecation $11,000 Accelerated depreciation rate 4,400 $33.19 Year 3 4,300 $30.31 $14.02 $41,890 4,100 $30.00 $13.45 541,679 $14.55 $40,100 15% 7 This project will require an investment of $10,000 in new equipment. The equipment will have no salvage value at the end of the project four year We Happy Dog Son Days a constant tax rate of 40%, and it has a required rate of return of 11% Wien wung accelerated deprecation, the project's not present value (NO) including the project's not present nue to the nearest whole dolar) (Hint: Round each element in your computation When train depreciation, the project NIV project net present ile to the nearest wiele dola) (Hint: Again, round each element in your computation including the Using the depreciation method w result in the greater NPV for the project Homer w would take on this project Happy Dog Soo turns it down. How much should Happy Dog Soap reduce the NPV or this project uit discovered that this project would reduce one of its division's not after tax cath now by 5400 for each year of the four year project? No other firm would take on this project 1 Happy Dog Soap turns it down. How much should Happy Dog Soap reduce the NPV of this project if it discovered that this project would reduce one of its division's net after-tax cash flows by $400 for each year of the four-year project? 51,365 5931 5745 $1,241 Happy Dog Soap spent $1.750.00 on a marketing study to estimate the number of units that it consell each year. What should Happy Dog Soap do to take this information into account? Increase the NPV of the project $1,750.00 Increase the amount of the initial investment by 51,750.00, The company does not need to do anything with the cost of the marketing study because the marketing study is a un cost