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CAPITAL BUDGETING AND CASH FLOW ESTIMATION Allied Food Products is considering expanding into the fruit juice business with a new fresh lemon juice product. Assume that you were recently hired as assistant to the director of capital budgeting, and you must evaluate the new project.

The lemon juice would be produced in an unused building adjacent to Allieds Fort Myers plant; Allied owns the building, which is fully depreciated. The purchase price of the required equipment is $280,000, including shipping and installation costs, and the equipment is eligible for 100% bonus depreciation at the time of purchase. In addition, inventories would rise by $25,000, while accounts payable would increase by $5,000. All of these costs would be incurred at t = 0.

The project is expected to operate for 4 years, at which time it will be terminated. The cash inflows are assumed to begin 1 year after the project is undertaken, or at t = 1, and to continue out to t = 4. At the end of the projects life (t = 4), the equipment is expected to have a salvage value of $25,000.

Unit sales are expected to total 100,000 units per year, and the expected sales price is $2.00 per unit. Cash operating costs for the project are expected to total 60% of dollar sales. Allieds tax rate is 25%, and its WACC is 10%. Tentatively, the lemon juice project is assumed to be of equal risk to Allieds other assets.

You have been asked to evaluate the project and to make a recommendation as to whether it should be accepted or rejected. To guide you in your analysis, your boss gave you the following set of tasks/questions:

a.Allied has a standard form that is used in the capital budgeting process. (See Table IC 12.1.) Part of the table has been completed, but you must replace the blanks with the missing numbers. Complete the table using the following steps:

1.Fill in the blanks under Year 0 for the initial investment outlays: CAPEX (1 T) and NOWC.

2.Complete the table for unit sales, sales price, total revenues, and operating costs.

3.Complete the table down to after-tax operating income and then down to the projects operating cash flows, EBIT (1 T) + DEP.

4.Fill in the blanks under Year 4 for the terminal cash flows and complete the project free cash flow line. Discuss the recovery of net operating working capital. What would have happened if the machinery had been sold for less than its book value?

b.

1.Allied uses debt in its capital structure, so some of the money used to finance the project will be debt. Given this fact, should the projected cash flows be revised to show projected interest charges? Explain.

2.Suppose you learned that Allied had spent $50,000 to renovate the building last year, expensing these costs. Should this cost be reflected in the analysis? Explain.

3.Suppose you learned that Allied could lease its building to another party and earn $25,000 per year. Should that fact be reflected in the analysis? If so, how?

4.Assume that the lemon juice project would take profitable sales away from Allieds fresh orange juice business. Should that fact be reflected in your analysis? If so, how?

c.Disregard all the assumptions made in part b and assume there is no alternative use for the building over the next 4 years. Now calculate the projects NPV, IRR, MIRR, and payback. Do these indicators suggest that the project should be accepted? Explain.

d.If this project had been a replacement rather than an expansion project, how would the analysis have changed? Think about the changes that would have to occur in the cash flow table.

e.

1.What three levels, or types, of project risk are normally considered?

2.Which type is most relevant?

3.Which type is easiest to measure?

4.Are the three types of risk generally highly correlated?

f.

1.What is sensitivity analysis?

2.How would you perform a sensitivity analysis on the unit sales, salvage value, and WACC for the project? Assume that each of these variables deviates from its base-case, or expected, value by plus or minus 10%, 20%, and 30%. Explain how you would calculate the NPV, IRR, MIRR, and payback for each case, but dont do the analysis unless your instructor asks you to.