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Acme Company is considering a project that provides annual net cash inflows over a three-year period. The upfront costs include equipment that has a purchase price of $210,000 and a salvage value of $58,000, as well as $40,000 of additional working capital that will be recovered when the project terminates. Acme uses a discount rate of 12% to make capital budgeting decisions and performs the following analysis of the future cash inflows associated with the project: What is the profitability index for this project? Round to two decimal places. 

Acme Company manufactures widgets. A major foreign distributor has offered to buy an unusually large quantity (1,750 units) at a reduced price. If Acme accepts the special order, it will incur additional one-time legal costs in connection that increase the minimum per-unit selling price that Acme must charge to break even on the order by $32 per unit. At the last minute, the customer decides to reduce the special order to 1,400 units. This change has no effect on the total amount of one-time legal costs, but it does increase the minimum per-unit selling price that Acme must charge to break even on a special order to $729 per unit. What are Acme’s per-unit variable manufacturing costs?

Part 1:Watch the video – What you need to know about cash flow and how companies report it, with link below:https://www.youtube.com/embed/r3Sa5YejdX0Explain why the net income reported on a corporate balance sheet isn’t a good estimate of the increase in cash that occurred during a financial year. Your answer should be not less than 250 words and no more than 350 words. Part 2:Watch the video – CFA – Corporate Finance – Cost of Trade Credit, with link below:https://www.youtube.com/embed/dNgI-18_aGo   Accounts payable is often called “interest-free financing.”  As such, explain why a company would chooseto pay the amount owed on its purchases of inventory 50 days early. Base your answer on these facts:• The annualized cost of forgoing an early payment discount is approximately 16 percent.• The company’s cost of borrowing short-term on a bank line of credit is 9 percent.Your answer should be not less than 250 words and no more than 350 words and should be supported by a calculation.

Assume you are the financial manager for a large electronics retailer. You are going to prepare a cashforecast. What key cash inflows and outflows do you anticipate will be in your forecast? Identify at least 5 cash inflows and at least 5 cash outflows, respectively. Your answer should be no more than 300 words.

Complete the following statements by adding the missing words or selecting the correct option between the 2 (or 3) alternatives presented as (X/X or X/X/X):The ___________ analysis is a type of financial statement analysis which is most commonly used to create a baseline estimate for financial forecasts.The ___________ on the income statement is a key element which is used to estimate several other key income statement lines.In the context of a firm’s financial statements, pro forma means historical/forward looking/audited.The most common length of a forecast if the goal is to forecast cash and assess possible short-term growth, is ________.When completing a first pass at a forecasted income statement, variable/fixed costs are assumed to be tied directly to sales.In the cash forecast, if cash inflows exceed cash outflows, this creates a cash deficit/surplus.

Using the same data as in question 2, assume that ABC Company expects a 10% increase in sales in the coming year (10% more than the $575,000 it had in the past year). Prepare its sales forecast, assuming the company breaks down its sales down by month using the same percentages as the actual sales from the past year, which you calculated in the first problem.

After viewing the video which discusses the optimal capital structure for real estate with link below answer the following questions:Optimal Capital Structure Commercial Real Estate Explain in no more than 350 words, why the optimal capital structure for commercial real estate cannot be uniform (i.e. a “one-size fits all”) for all commercial real estate entities. Present a scenario where you would recommend a highly levered capital structure and a scenario when you would recommend an unlevered capital structure in the commercial real-estate market and explain why.  

Westland Manufacturing spends $20,000 to update the lighting in its factory to more energy-efficient LED fixtures. This will save the company $4,000 per year in electricity costs. The company estimates that these fixtures will last for 10 years. If the company’s cost of funds is 8%, what is the NPV of this project?

What is the payback of an investment that requires a 10 percent minimum rate of return and has the following projected cash flows: Yr0 = -100 , Yr1 = 25, Yr2 = 35, Yr3 = 45, Yr4 = 35, and Yr5 = 30?