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1.A bicycle manufacturer currently produces 215,000 units a year and expects output levels to remain steady in the future. It buys chains from an outside supplier at a price of $ 2.10 a chain. The plant manager believes that it would be cheaper to make these chains rather than buy them. Direct in-house production costs are estimated to be only $ 1.60 per chain. The necessary machinery would cost $ 234,000 and would be obsolete after ten years. This investment could be depreciated to zero for tax purposes using a ten-year straight-line depreciation schedule. The plant manager estimates that the operation would require $ 24,000 of inventory and other working capital upfront (year 0), but argues that this sum can be ignored since it is recoverable at the end of the ten years. Expected proceeds from scrapping the machinery after ten years are $ 17,550. If the company pays tax at a rate of 35 % and the opportunity cost of capital is 15 %, what is the net present value of the decision to produce the chains in-house instead of purchasing them from the supplier? Project the annual free cash flows (FCF) of buying the chains. The annual free cash flows for years 1 to 10 of buying the chains is $ . (Round to the nearest dollar. Enter a free cash outflow as a negative number.) 2. Facebook is considering two proposals to overhaul its network infrastructure. They have received two bids. The first bid from Huawei will require a $ 16 million upfront investment and will generate $ 20 million in savings for Facebook each year for the next 3years. The second bid from Cisco requires a $ 92 million upfront investment and will generate $ 60 million in savings each year for the next 3 years. a. What is the IRR for Facebook associated with each bid? b. If the cost of capital for each investment is 20 %, what is the net present value (NPV) for Facebook of each bid? Suppose Cisco modifies its bid by offering a lease contract instead. Under the terms of the lease, Facebook will pay $ 22 million upfront, and $ 35 million per year for the next 3 years. Facebook's savings will be the same as with Cisco's original bid. c. Including its savings, what are Facebook's net cash flow under the lease contract? What is the IRR of the Cisco bid now? d. Is this new bid a better deal for Facebook than Cisco's original bid? Explain You are deciding between two mutually exclusive investment opportunities. Both require the same initial investment of $ 9.5 million. Investment A will generate $ 1.86 million per year (starting at the end of the first year) in perpetuity. Investment B will generate $ 1.55 million at the end of the first year, and its revenues will grow at 2.8 % per year for every year after that. 3. a. What is the IRR for investment A? What is the IRR for investment B? b. Which investment has the higher NPV when the cost of capital is 5.7 %? What is the NPV for A? What is the NPV for B? c. In this case, for what values of the cost of capital does picking the higher IRR give the correct answer as to which investment is the best opportunity? 4.
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