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Webmasters.com has developed a powerful new server that would be used for corporationsâ?? Internet activities. It would cost $10 million at Year 0 to buy the equipment necessary to manufacture the server. The project would require net working capital at the beginning of each year in an amount equal to 10% of the year's projected sales; for example, NWC0 = 10%(Sales1). The servers would sell for $24,000 per unit, and Webmasters believes that variable costs would amount to $17,500 per unit. After Year 1, the sales price and variable costs will increase at the inflation rate of 3%. The companyâ??s nonvariable costs would be $1 million at Year 1 and would increase with inflation.
The server project would have a life of 4 years. If the project is undertaken, it must be continued for the entire 4 years. Also, the project's returns are expected to be highly correlated with returns on the firm's other assets. The firm believes it could sell 1,000 units per year.
The equipment would be depreciated over a 5-year period, using MACRS rates. The estimated market value of the equipment at the end of the projectâ??s 4-year life is $500,000. Webmastersâ?? federal-plus-state tax rate is 40%. Its cost of capital is 10% for average-risk projects, defined as projects with a coefficient of variation of NPV between 0.8 and 1.2. Low-risk projects are evaluated with a WACC of 8%, and high-risk projects at 13%.

a. Develop a spreadsheet model, and use it to find the projectâ??s NPV, IRR, and payback.
Key Output: NPV =
IRR =
MIRR =

Equipment cost $10,000
Net WC/Sales 10% Market value of equipment at Year 4 $500
First year sales (in units) 1,000 Tax rate 40%
Sales price per unit $24.00 WACC 10%
Variable cost per unit $17.50 Inflation 3.0%
Nonvariable costs $1,000

Part 2. Depreciation and Amortization Schedule Years Accum'd
Year Initial Cost 1 2 3 4 Depr'n

Equipment Depr'n Rate 20.0% 32.0% 19.0% 12.0%
Equipment Depr'n, Dollars
Ending Bk Val: Cost â?" Accum Dep'rn

Part 3. Net Salvage Values, in Year 4 Equipment
Estimated Market Value in Year 4
Book Value in Year 4
Expected Gain or Loss
Taxes paid or tax credit
Net cash flow from salvage

Part 4. Projected Net Cash Flows (Time line of Annual Cash Flows)
Years 0 1 2 3 4
Investment Outlays at Time Zero:
Equipment

Operating Cash Flows over the Project's Life:
Units sold
Sales price
Variable costs

Sales revenue
Variable costs
Nonvariable operating costs
Depreciation (equipment)
Oper. income before taxes (EBIT)
Taxes on operating income (40%)
After-tax operating income
Add back depreciation
Operating cash flow

Terminal Year Cash Flows:
Required level of net working capital
Required investment in NWC

Terminal Year Cash Flows:
Net salvage value

Net Cash Flow (Time line of cash flows)

Part 5. Key Output: Appraisal of the Proposed Project

Net Present Value (at 10%)
IRR
MIRR

Payback (See calculation below) 3

Data for Payback Years 0 1 2 3 4
Net cash flow
Cumulative CF 0
Part of year required for payback

Part 7. Evaluating Risk: Scenario Analysis Squared
Deviation
Sales Unit Variable Times
Scenario Probability Price Sales Costs NPV Probability

Best Case 25% $28.80 1,200 $14.00
Base Case 50% $24.00 1,000 $17.50
Worst Case 25% $19.20 800 $21.00

Expected NPV = sum, prob times NPV
Standard Deviation = Sq Root of column H sum
Coefficient of Variation = Std Dev / Expected NPV

d. If the project appears to be more or less risky than an average project, find its risk-adjusted NPV, IRR, and payback.

CV range of firm's average-risk project: 0.8 to 1.2
Low-risk WACC = 8%
WACC = 10%
High-risk WACC = 13%

Risk-adjusted WACC =
Risk adjusted NPV =
IRR =
Payback =

e. On the basis of information in the problem, would you recommend that the project be accepted?

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