Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $20 million, and production and sales will require an initial $5 million investment in net operating working capital. The company's tax rate is 40%.

A. What is the initial investment outlay? Enter your answer as a positive value. Enter your answer in dollars. For example, an answer of $1.2 million should be entered as $1,200,000. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

B. The company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the new project last year. Would this change your answer?

(YES/NO) last year's $150,000 expenditure, (IS/ IS NOT) considered a sunk cost and, (DOES/ DOES NOT) represents an incremental cash flow.

C.

Rather than build a new manufacturing facility, the company plans to install the equipment in a building it owns but is not now using. The building could be sold for $1.5 million after taxes and real estate commissions. How would this affect your answer?

The project's cost will (INCREASE or DECREASE or NOT CHANGE)