Briarcrest Condiments is a spice-making firm. Recently, it developed a new process for producing spices. The process requires new machinery that would cost $2,228,876. have a life of five years, and would produce the cash flows shown in the following table.
Year Cash Flow
1 $597,622
2 -252,803
3 918,984
4 922,714
5 837,141
What is the NPV if the discount rate is 16.02 percent?