Your company is considering expanding its operations in shoe manufacturing. You owe your consultants $ 1.8 million for a report, but you are not sure their analysis makes sense. Before you spend the $ 21 million on new equipment needed for this project, you have to look it over and give it your opinion. You open the report and find the following estimates (in millions of dollars):

	1	2	. . .	9	10
Sales revenue	32,000	32,000		32,000	32,000
Cost of goods sold	19,200	19,200		19,200	19,200
=Gross profit	12,800	12,800		12,800	12,800
General, sales, and administrative expenses	1,680	1,680		1,680	1,680
Depreciation	2,100	2,100		2,100	2,100
=Net operating income	9,020	9,020		9,020	9,020
Income tax	3,157	3,157		3,157	3,157
=Net income	5,863	5,863		5,863	5,863

All of the estimates in the report seem correct. You note that the consultants used straight-line depreciation for the new equipment that will be purchased today (year 0), which is what the accounting department recommended for financial reporting purposes. CRA allows a CCA rate of 30 % on the equipment for tax purposes. The report concludes that because the project will increase earnings by $ 5.863 million per year for 10 years, the project is worth $ 58.63 million. You think back to your glory days in finance class and realize there is more work to bedone!

First you note that the consultants have not factored in the fact that the project will require $ 13 million in working capital up front (year 0), which will be fully recovered in year 10.

Next you see they have attributed $ 1.68 million of selling, general and administrative expenses to the project, but you know that $0.84 million of this amount is overhead that will be incurred even if the project is not accepted.

Finally, you know that accounting earnings are not the right thing to focus on!

1. Given the available information, what are the free cash flows in years 0 through 10 that should be used to evaluate the proposed project?
2. If the cost of capital for this project is 12%, what is your estimate of the value of the new project?