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Setting up an Excel Spreadsheet for a Company

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I need an example of how to set up an excel spreadsheet to calculate the following:

A spreadsheet for a production plant that a company will lease for 5 years at US$1,500,000 per year; it will cost the firm US$4,000,000 in capital (straight-line depreciation, 5 year life) in year 0; it will cost the firm an additional US$150,000 per year after the new production plant is brought online for other expenses; and it will generate an incremental revenue of US$3,500,000 per year. Use a 40% tax rate, a 10% cost of capital, and a 12% re-investment rate. Assume the company will use cash flow to finance the project.

And then I need to be able to discuss how the project would fair under hurdle rate scenarios of 10%, 15%, and 20% (based on MIRR).

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Excel spreadsheet is attached and worded explanation given of how to wrestle many numbers and statistics into a useful company spreadsheet.

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Calculate the net operating cash flows in each of the years that the project will last. In this case, we're told that the plant will be leased for 5 years.

The initial outlay is clearly $4,000,000.

The cash flow in each of the following years is found in this way. We know that there will be savings of $3,500,000. Furthermore, there will be a lease cost of $1,500,000 per year and additional expenses for $150,000. Therefore, the net income before depreciation and taxes would be:

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