Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $17 million, and

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Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $17 million, and production and sales will require an initial $5 million investment in net operating working capital. The company’s tax rate is 25%.
a. What is the initial investment outlay?
b. The company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the new product last year. What is the initial investment outlay?.
c. Rather than build a new manufacturing facility, the company plans to install the equipment in a building it owns but is not now using. The building could be sold for $1.5 million after taxes and real estate commissions. What is the initial investment outlay?

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