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Power Manufacturing has equipment that it purchased 7 years ago for $2,750,000. The equipment was used for a project that was intended to last for 9 years. However, due to low demand, the project is being shut down. The equipment was depreciated using the straight-line method and can be sold for $440,000 today. The company’s tax rate is 21 percent. What is the aftertax salvage value of the equipment?

A project has an initial cost of $6,900. The cash inflows are $850, $2,400, $3,100, and $4,100 over the next four years, respectively. What is the payback period?

You purchased Butterfly Wing Corporation stock exactly one year ago at a price of $77.95 per share. Over the past year, the stock paid dividends of $2.98 per share. Today, you sold your stock and earned a total return of 15.95 percent. What was the price at which you sold the stock?

Keedis Products has projected the following sales for the coming year: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Sales $ 17,750 $ 14,450 $ 15,275 $ 15,975 The company places orders each quarter that are 30 percent of the followingquarter’s sales and has a 60-day payables period. What is the payment of accounts for the second quarter?

Ferry’s Furniture Outlet has an accounts receivable period of 49.76 days and an accounts payable period of 37.87 days. The company turns over its inventory 5.29 times per year. What is the length of the company’s operating cycle? Assume 365 days per year.

Colors and More is considering replacing the equipment it uses to produce crayons. The equipment would cost $1.03 million, have a 12-year life, and lower manufacturing costs by an estimated $280,000 per year. The equipment will be depreciated using straight-line depreciation over its expected life to a book value of zero. Ignore bonus depreciation. The required rate of return is 13 percent and the tax rate is 23 percent. What is the annual operating cash flow?

A firm is considering adding a new product line that is expected to increase annual sales by $418,000 and cash expenses by $337,000. The initial investment will require $390,000 in fixed assets that will be depreciated using the straight-line method to a zero book value over the six-year life of the project. Ignore bonus depreciation. The company has a marginal tax rate of 21 percent. What is the annual value of the depreciation tax shield?

Yesteryear Productions is considering a project with an initial costs of $318,000. The firm maintains a debt-equity ratio of .60 and has a flotation cost of debt of 5.2 percent and a flotation cost of equity of 11.1 percent. The firm has sufficient internally generated equity to cover the equity cost of this project. What is the initial cost of the project including the flotation costs?

Travis & Sons has a capital structure that is based on 45 percent debt, 5 percent preferred stock, and 50 percent common stock. The pretax cost of debt is 8.3 percent, the cost of preferred is 9.2 percent, and the cost of common stock is 15.4 percent. The tax rate is 21 percent. A project is being considered that is equally as risky as the overall company. This project has initial costs of $287,000 and annual cash inflows of $91,000, $248,000, and $145,000 over the next three years, respectively. What is the projected net present value of this project?

You are considering two independent projects. Project A has an initial cost of $125,000 and cash inflows of $46,000, $79,000, and $51,000 for Years 1 to 3, respectively. Project B costs $135,000 with expected cash inflows for Years 1 to 3 of $50,000, $30,000, and $100,000, respectively. The required return for both projects is 16 percent. Based on IRR, you should: