Spherical Manufacturing recently spent $19 million to purchase some equipment used in the manufacture of disk drives. This equipment has a CCA rate of 30% andSpherical's marginal corporate tax rate is 33%.

a. What are the annual CCA deductions associated with this equipment for the first fiveyears?

b. What are the annual CCA tax shields for the first fiveyears?

c. What is the present value of the first five CCA tax shields if the appropriate discount rate is 10% peryear?

d. What is the present value of all the CCA tax shields assuming the equipment is never sold and the appropriate discount rate is 10% peryear?

e. How might your answer to part(d) change if Spherical anticipates that its marginal corporate tax rate will increase substantially over the next fiveyears?

a. What are the annual CCA deductions associated with this equipment for the first fiveyears?

The CCA deduction for year 1 is $ ________ (Round to the nearestdollar.)