Skyler Audio has developed an improved version of its most popular product. To get this improvement to the market will cost $48 million but the project will return an additional $13.5 million for 5 years in net cash flows. The firms debt-equity ratio is .25, the cost of equity is 13 percent, the pretax cost of debt is 9 percent, and the tax rate is 21 percent. All interest is tax deductible. What is the net present value of this proposed project?

Multiple Choice

• $906,411

• $902,459

• $879,838

• $884,318

• $889,760