The management of Kitchen Shop is thinking of buying a new drill press to aid in adapting

Question:

The management of Kitchen Shop is thinking of buying a new drill press to aid in adapting parts for different machines. The press is expected to save Kitchen Shop $16,000 per year in costs. However, Kitchen Shop has an old drill press that isn’t worth anything on the market and that will probably last indefinitely. The new press will last 12 years and will cost $86,730. (Ignore income tax effects.)

Required:

1. Compute the payback period of the new machine.

2. Compute the internal rate of return.

3. Interpretive Question: What uncertainties are involved in this decision? Discuss how they might be dealt with.

Payback Period
Payback period method is a traditional method/ approach of capital budgeting. It is the simple and widely used quantitative method of Investment evaluation. Payback period is typically used to evaluate projects or investments before undergoing them,...