Zoysia University must purchase mowers for its landscape department. The university can buy five EVF mowers that
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Zoysia University must purchase mowers for its landscape department. The university can buy five EVF mowers that cost $8,700 each and have annual, year-end maintenance costs of $2,025 per mower. The EVF mowers will be replaced at the end of Year 4 and have no value at that time. Alternatively, Zoysia can buy six AEH mowers to accomplish the same work. The AEH mowers will be replaced after seven years. They each cost $7,500 and have annual, year-end maintenance costs of $2,400 per mower. Each AEH mower will have a resale value of $800 at the end of seven years. The university’s opportunity cost of funds for this type of investment is 9 percent. Because the university is a nonprofit institution, it does not pay taxes. It is anticipated that whichever manufacturer is chosen now will be the supplier of future mowers. Would you recommend purchasing five EVF mowers or six AEH mowers?
Opportunity CostOpportunity cost is the profit lost when one alternative is selected over another. The Opportunity Cost refers to the expected returns from the second best alternative use of resources that are foregone due to the scarcity of resources such as land,...
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Corporate Finance Core Principles and Applications
ISBN: 978-1259289903
5th edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford Jordan