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Conch Republic Electronies is a midsized electronics manufacturer located in Key West. Florida. The company president is Shelley Couts, who inherited the company. When it was founded over 70 years ago. the company originally repaired madios and other household appliances. Over the years, the company expanded into manufacturing and is now a reputable manafacrurer of various electronic items. Jay McCanless, a recent MBA graduate, has been hired by the company's finance deparment. One of the major revenueproducing items manufactured by Coneh Republic is a smartphone. Conch Republic currently has one smartphone model on the market, and sales hase been exellent. The smartphoue is a unigue item in that it comes in a variety of tropical colors and is preprogrammed to play Jimany Buffett musie. However, as with any electronie item, technology changes rapidly, and the current smartphone has limited features in comparison with newer models. Conch Republic spent $950,000 to develop a prototype for a new smartphone that has all the features of the existing smartphone but adds new features such as WiFi tethering. The company has spent a further $250.000 for a marketing study to determine the expected sales figures for the new smartphone. Conch Republic can manufacture the new smartphones for $245 each in variable costs. Fixed costs for the operation are estimated to run $6.9 million per year. The estimated sales volume is 160.000.170.000,130.000,105.000, and 80.000 per year for the next five years. respectively. The unit price of the new smartphone will be \$575. The necessary equipment can be purchased for $19.5 million and will be depreciated on a sevenyear (G) MARS schedule. It is believed the value of the equipment in five years will be $6.8 million. As previously stared, Conch Republic curremty manufactures a smartphone. Production of the existing model is expected to be terminated in two years. If Conch Republie does not introduce the new smantphone. sales will be 95,000 mirs and 65,000 units for the next two jears respectively. The price of the existing smartphone is $435 per unit, with variable costs of 5155 ench and fixed costs of $4.3 million per year. If Conch Republic does introduce the new smartphone, sales of the existing smartphone will fall by 30.000 anits per year, and the price of the existing units will have to be lowered to $235 ench. Net working capitai for the smartphones will be 20 percent of sales and will occur with the timing of the cash flows for the year, for example, there is no initial outlay for NWC. but changes in NWC will first. occur in Year 1 with the first year's sales. Conch Republic has a 21 percent corporate tax rate and a required return of 12 percent. Shelley has asked Jay to prepare a report that answers the following questions. QUESTIONS 1. What is the payback period of the project? 2. What is the profitability index of the project? 3. What is the IRR of the project? 4. What is the NPV of the project
