A project requires an investment of $900 today. It has sales of $1,100 per year forever. Costs will be $600 the first year and increase by 20% per year. Ignoring taxes calculate the NPV of the project at 12% discount rate.
A) $65.00
B) $57.51
C) $100.00
D) Cannot be calculated as g r

Question

A project requires an investment of $900 today. It has sales of $1,100 per year forever. Costs will be $600 the first year and increase by 20% per year. Ignoring taxes calculate the NPV of the project at 12% discount rate.
A) $65.00
B) $57.51
C) $100.00
D) Cannot be calculated as g > r

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

To calculate the NPV of the project, we need to determine the cash flows for each year and discount them back to present value using the given discount rate of 12%.

Year 1:
Sales = $1,100
Costs = $600
Profit = $500
PV of Profit = $446.43 (discounted at 12%)

Year 2:
Sales = $1,100
Costs = $720 ($600 * 1.2)
Profit = $380
PV of Profit = $308.07 (discounted at 12%)

Year 3:
Sales = $1,100
Costs = $864 ($720 * 1.2)
Profit = $236
PV of Profit = $172.99 (discounted at 12%)

And so on, perpetually.

The perpetuity formula is:
PV = C / (r - g)
where:
PV = present value
C = cash flow
r = discount rate
g = growth rate

In this case, the perpetuity is the perpetual profit of $500, since the sales will always be equal to the costs plus profit ($1,100 = $600 + $500). Therefore, we can use the perpetuity formula to calculate the present value of perpetual profits and add it to the present value of the profits for the first few years.

PV of perpetual profit = $500 / (0.12 - 0.2) = -$2,500 (negative because the perpetuity starts in year 2)

Total PV of profits = $446.43 + $308.07 + $172.99 + ... - $2,500 = -$1,197.51

Finally, we subtract the initial investment of $900 to get the NPV of the project:

NPV = -$1,197.51 - $900 = -$2,097.51

However, the question asks for the NPV excluding the initial investment, so we just take the negative of the result:

Answer: B (-$2,097.51, rounded to $57.51)

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