Spherical Manufacturing recently spent $21 million to purchase some equipment used in the manufacture of disk drives. This equipment has a CCA rate of 46% andSpherical's marginal corporate tax rate is 42%.

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 13% peryear?

d. What is the present value of all the CCA taxshields, assuming the equiment is never sold and the appropriate discount rate is 13% 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?