FNCE623 Individual Assignment, Please take time and provide with proper answer

Week 9. The case is open ending. The way you collect data may affect the results. You must collect or estimate the related data with references if you can't find them in the question. You can use either PV of CCA Tax Shield formula approach or the CCA Schedule approach in calculating CCA.

THE ASSIGNMENT MUST BE DONE INDIVIDUALLY. ANY ACADEMIC INTEGRITY ISSUES WILL BE REPORTED TO ACADEMIC OFFICE.

1. Vita Smart Ltd is a leading high-tech company which is incorporated in Surrey, BC. The company wants to add an additional production line in Sept 2022. They hired you, a UCW graduate, to prepare a capital budgeting for the project.

Below is the information that your manager provided:

1. The facility is made up of one piece of land in Surrey value at 20%, one non residential building value at 20% of the total cost 60% of manufacturing equipment. At the end of project's life, the equipment will be sold for an estimated $0.25 million. Both building and land residual value is unclear.

2. Start-up costs include $2.5 million to build the production facilities, including land, building and equipment. The project will last for 7 years.

3. The company estimated that it is able to make 3000 of its new products - smart testing machine units for labs, could be sold annually over the next 7 years at a price of $1500 each. Variable costs per unit are $350 (estimated) and each year's fixed costs is 55,000.

4. To handle the new product line, Vita Smart's net operating working capital would have to increase by an amount equal to 8% of sales revenues and will be half recovered at the end of project.

5. However, if Vita introduces its new products, sales of its existing products will fall $15,000 per year. They will hire 30 new workers who are familiar with the new equipment operation and [ay them 30% more than BC minimum wage. Vita hires a marketing research company on the new machines and paid them $250,000. The company will retool one of its existing manufacturing facilities to produce the new model. The one-time retooling cost is $190,000. BC government also granted the company an innovation funding of $10,000 in Jan 2022

6. The manager is complaining the inflation will affect fixed cost, variable cost and the sales price in current years. The financial division has estimated the company's WACC is 12%. The company also assume the sales will increase 6% per year.

Requirements

1. Using an Excel spreadsheet:

• Find the NPV of the project by using the pro forma financial statement method to determine cash flows.
• Set up the necessary equations by referencing to the input variable cells. The spreadsheet must be formula driven; do not put any numbers in equations, must use cell references.
• Use Excel's built-in functions wherever possible
• Must list all the reference sources.

2. Assume that you are confident of your estimates of all variables that affect the project's cash flows except unit sales and sales price.

Worst Case:

If product acceptance is poor, unit sales will be only 1500 units a year and the unit price will be only $900

Best Case:

A strong demand will produce sales of 4000 units and a unit price of $1750.

Probability: The marketing department told you that there is a 25% chance of poor acceptance and 25% chance of excellent acceptance, and a 50% chance of average acceptance (the base case).

• (a) What is the worst case NPV and the best case NPV?
• (b) What is the expected NPV for this project considering all possibilities?

3. Recommendation

Use the results you obtained in the NPV and scenario analysis above to write a report (ALSO IN EXCEL) on your findings and recommend whether or not the company should proceed with the project with reasonings and references. The evaluation must be written in a professional way and at least 200 words.

4. Present this assignment in a professional way. It is your responsibility to communicate clearly to the marker.

5. Hand in by Excel Spread Sheets (One Excel File) (FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS STRICTLY):

Spread Sheet 1, cover page with your name and student ID.

Spread Sheet 2, Base Case: Data source, Income Statement, NPV. Must state the reasoning of the cash inflows/outflows.

Spread Sheet 3, Best Case: Income Statement, NPV

Spread Sheet 4, Worst Case: Income Statement, NPV

Spread Sheet 5, Scenario Analysis, Project Evaluation/Summary

Spread Sheet 6, References