Financial Management

Chapters 9 and 10

Dog Up! Franks is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $430,000. This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project's five-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $60,000. The sausage system will save the firm $260,000 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $19,000. If the tax rate is 30 percent and the discount rate is 8 percent, what is the NPV of this project? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)