Problem: Capital budgeting with uneven cash flows, no income taxes.
Southern Cola is considering the purchase of a special-purpose bottling ma chine for $23,000, It is expected to have a useful life of four years with a $0 terminal disposal value. The plant manager estimates the following savings in cash operating costs:
____Year_____Amount
_____1______$10,000
_____2________8,000
_____3________6,000
_____4________5,000
Total_______$29,000
Southern Cola uses a required rate of return of 16% in its capital budgeting decisions. Ignore income taxes in your analysis,
Compute the following:
1. Net present value
2. Payback period
3. Internal rate of return
4. Accrual accounting rate of return based on net initial investment (Assume straight-line depreciation.
Use the average annual savings in cash operating costs when computing the numerator of the accrual accounting rate of return.)