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You run a company that supplies personal protective equipment (PPE) used in hospitals etc. Your company has just sign a deal to deliver PPE to
You run a company that supplies personal protective equipment (PPE) used in hospitals etc. Your company has just sign a deal to deliver PPE to doctor's surgeries, hospitals and test centres. The masks, gowns etc. must be delivered in one year. Your company will need to order $10.68 million worth of equipment today and spend $5.00 million on distribution in one year. Upon delivery of the PPE your company will receive $23.50. The risk-free interest rate is 8% and given the nature of the deal the cashflows are certain.
a. What is the NPV of this opportunity?
b. How can your company transform this NPV into cash now?
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SOLUTION a To calculate the NPV of the opportunity we need to discount all the cash flows to the present value using the riskfree interest rate of 8 First we need to calculate the present value of the ...
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Financial Reporting and Analysis
Authors: Lawrence Revsine, Daniel Collins, Bruce Johnson, Fred Mittelstaedt, Leonard Soffer
7th edition
1259722651, 978-1259722653
