Consider the following 4 period project, with the following expected cashflows.
Time Period 0 1 2 3 4
Initial Investment 400 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Gross Revenue 0 250 250 250 250
COGS 0 100 100 100 100
Depreciation(straight-line) N/A ? ? ? ?
Pre-tax earnings N/A ? ? ? ?
Taxes (30%) N/A ? ? ? ?
After-tax earnings N/A ? ? ? ?
Cashflows N/A ? ? ? ?
a) Fill in the blanks(?).
b) Estimate IRR and NPV
c) Assume the cost of capital is 8%, and that revenues and costs are binomially distributed - either they will all be 50% above the expected in the table, or they will all be 50% below that expected in the table. These two possibilities are equally like. If you wait, the true outcome will be appraent in period 1, at the expense of a one period delay for all cash-flows. What is the value of the option to delay one period?