A community farm needs to purchase a new tractor for the upcoming year. The manager is trying

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A community farm needs to purchase a new tractor for the upcoming year. The manager is trying to make a decision between three different tractor options. Tractor A is a 6-year lease with monthly payments of $9,000 due at the beginning of each month. This amount includes $100 a month for maintenance. Tractor B is the purchase of a new tractor for $575,000. The tractor's estimated useful lifetime is 6 years and it would require yearly maintenance payments of $1,000 throughout its lifetime. The maintenance payments are due at the beginning of each year. Tractor C also has an estimated useful lifetime of 6 years. This tractor would require an initial down payment of $200,000 and then monthly payments of $5,500 due at the end of each month. These payments include a small monthly maintenance fee. The community farm uses a discount rate of 3.5%.
What are the net present costs for Tractors A, B, and C?
Discount Rate
Depending upon the context, the discount rate has two different definitions and usages. First, the discount rate refers to the interest rate charged to the commercial banks and other financial institutions for the loans they take from the Federal...
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Management Accounting Information for Decision-Making and Strategy Execution

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Authors: Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura, S. Mark Young

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