Please show all your work! Polarlech Inc. is considering producing a new widget. The production equipment, costing $12 million, will depreciate over a six-year period with no salvage value. The widget's retail price is $250, with an anticipated annual sales volume of 150,000 units. Fixed costs are projected at $900,000 annually, and variable costs amount to $150 per widget. Initial project startup requires a net working capital investment of $1,200,000. No additional working capital is needed during the project. The applicable tax rate is 25%. Calculate the IRRs and NPVs for this project using the WACC under the following scenario: PolarTech Inc. can obtain debt funding at 8 percent. Its marginal income tax rate is 25 percent. The yield on US Treasury securities is 3 percent. The market risk premium is 6.0 percent, and the firm's beta is 2. It has a targeted debt-to-equity ratio of 1:1 (50 percent debt, 50 percent equity).

Gina Ripley, president of Dearing Company, is considering the purchase of a computer-aided manufacturing system. The annual net cash benefits and savings associated with the system are described as follows: The system will cost 9,000,000 and last 10 years. The companys cost of capital is 12 percent. Required: 1. Calculate the payback period for the system. Assume that the company has a policy of only accepting projects with a payback of five years or less. Would the system be acquired? 2. Calculate the NPV and IRR for the project. Should the system be purchasedeven if it does not meet the payback criterion? 3. The project manager reviewed the projected cash flows and pointed out that two items had been missed. First, the system would have a salvage value, net of any tax effects, of 1,000,000 at the end of 10 years. Second, the increased quality and delivery performance would allow the company to increase its market share by 20 percent. This would produce an additional annual net benefit of 300,000. Recalculate the payback period, NPV, and IRR given this new information. (For the IRR computation, initially ignore salvage value.) Does the decision change? Suppose that the salvage value is only half what is projected. Does this make a difference in the outcome? Does salvage value have any real bearing on the companys decision?

Roberts Company is considering an investment in equipment that is capable of producing more efficiently than the current technology. The outlay required is 2,293,200. The equipment is expected to last five years and will have no salvage value. The expected cash flows associated with the project are as follows: Required: 1. Compute the projects payback period. 2. Compute the projects accounting rate of return. 3. Compute the projects net present value, assuming a required rate of return of 10 percent. 4. Compute the projects internal rate of return.

Kolby's Korndogs is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $695,00o. This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project's 5-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $93,000. The sausage system will save the firm $199,000 per year in pretax operating costs, and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $51,000. If the tax rate is 23 percent and the discount rate is 8 percent, what is the NPV of this project? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) NPV