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A production equipment at a cost of $500,000 has been purchased by a contract manufacturing company to meet the specific needs of customer that had awarded a 4-year contract with the possibility of extending the contract for another 4 years. The company plans to use the MACRS depreciation method for this equipment as a 7-year property for tax purposes. The income tax rate for the company is 39%, and it expects to have an after -tax rate of return of 12% for all its investments. The equipment generated an annual income of $100,000 for the first four years. The customer decided not to renew the contract after 4 years. Consequently, the company decided to sell the equipment for $180,000 at the end of 4 years. Determine if the company obtained the expected after-tax rate of return on this investment.

The tuition in a private university was $25,000 per academic year in 1999. If the inflation rate has been averaging at the rate of 3%, how much one should have invested in 1999 to send a kid to this private university in 2017. Assume the investment earned an 8% return.

Determine the first year depreciation of the building.

The opportunity cost is the rate of return on the best rejected project.

A small business sold an equipment for $100,000 after depreciating the equipment using SOYD depreciation method. The federal tax liability on this depreciation recapture is $34,000 if the company also had other taxable income of $150,000 in that year.

The first-year after tax-cash flow is _____________.

The capitalized cost of any investment may be determined using the equation P = A/i where P is the capitalized cost, A is the annual amount and i is the interest rate.

The cost of capital is average interest rate from all sources of funds generated by a company.

Determine the amount of 49-th monthly payment.

The annual maintenance cost of a monument in the state capital is estimated to be $4850. A perpetual i fund of $100,000 is set up to pay for this maintenance expenditure. Determine the interest rate this fund earns if the interest is compounded quarterly.