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Please show all work when answering questions. Thank you! A proposal to build an $87 million factory is being contemplated to produce a new product.

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A proposal to build an $87 million factory is being contemplated to produce a new product. The factory is expected to last 20 years (but can be depreciated immediately according to current accounting rules). The factory is expected to produce 8021 units per year that are expected to be sold for a price of $26,000 each. Variable costs (production labor, raw materials, marketing, distribution, etc.) are expected to be $17,000 per unit. Fixed costs (administration, maintenance, repairs, utilities, insurance, real estate taxes, etc.) are expected to be $15 million per year. The tax rate is 21%. The project will require $42 million in inventory (raw materials and finished products) as well as $55 million in receivables (credit for customers). An extra $18 million in cash is required as a safety stock to provide financial flexibility (that enables avoiding running out of cash in case of temporary declines in demand). Suppliers (companies which sell the parts and raw materials that are used in the production of the 8021 units produced by the factory) are expected to provide short-term trade credit that is expected to sum to $7 million in accounts payable while short-term accrual financing of $11 million is supplied by the employees (who don't get paid until the end of the month)

Expected Rate/Discount Rate(B.1): 12.88%

Units: 8,021 per year

Price per unit: $26,000

Variable Costs: $17,000 per unit

Fixed Costs: $15 million per year

Tax Rate: 21%

Raw materials and finished goods: $42 million

Receivables: $55 million

Cash Required (safety stock): $18 million

Accounts payable suppliers (short-term trade credit): $7 million

Accrual Financing: $11 million

  1. Compute the NPV
  2. Compute the IRR
  3. Indicate the change in shareholder wealth (i.e., the increase or decrease in the company's equity market capitalization) that would occur as a result of undertaking this project
  4. Determine if the project should be undertaken
  5. Compute the Payback Period (and reevaluate the project if the company requires a Payback Period of 5 years)
  6. Compute equivalent annual cash flow (EAC) and compare that to another project with an annual EAC of $12 million that can alternatively be selected (and re-evaluate the project in this context)
  7. Compute the NPV if demand is only half of the projected 8000 units per year
  8. Compute the NPV if costs go up 10%
  9. Compute the sensitivity of NPV to a change in unit sales
  10. Compute the minimum sales price per unit to get an NPV of at least $0
  11. Compute the NPV if prices and all costs were expected to rise by 2% per year due to expected inflation (helpful hint: use the growing annuity formula for the annual after-tax cash flow; or you could use the equation for real cash flow valuation)
  12. Assume that, if you undertake the project, you can alternatively install a different energy system that is more environmentally friendly energy system (e.g., solar or fuel cells) that requires an incremental investment of $19 million and is expected to lead to incrementally higher energy costs for a while (reducing after-tax cash flows by $3 million per year for the first 4 years of the project) but result in incrementally lower energy costs thereafter (increasing after-tax cash flows by $8 million per year from year 5 through year 20 of the project). Compute the incremental NPV of this alternative energy system
  13. Evaluate any ethical considerations involved in making the decision in H.12.
  14. Indicate the effect on the NPV computed H.1 if your company had previously (over the last few years) spent $14 million to research and develop the product that your company is now evaluating producing.
  15. Compute the NPV if your company needs to issue new shares of stock to fund the investment and the flotation costs of selling those new shares is 4% (and decide whether the project should or shouldn't be undertaken if such sales of new shares of stock need to be made to fund the investment).

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