Houston and Smith Corp. is considering opening a new division to produce units that it expects to sell at a price of $15,250 each in the first year of the project. The company expects the cost of producing each unit to be $5,500 in the first year; however, it expects the selling price and cost per unit to increase by 3% each year. and it expects the Based on the preceding information, the company expects the selling price in the fourth year of the project to be cost per unit in the fourth year of the project to be which of the following statements about inflation's effect on net present value (NPV) is correct? When the selling price and cost per unit are expected to increase at the same rate, you do not need to take inflation into account when performing a capital budgeting analysis. When the selling price and cost per unit are expected to increase at the same rate, forgetting to take inflation into account in a capital budgeting analysis will typically cause the estimated NPV to be lower than the true NPV. A-Z 70