2. Identifying incremental cash flows Aa Aa When companies make capital budgeting decisions, they should concern themselves with incremental cash flows, not net income, when evaluating projects To determine the incremental cash flows from a project, an analyst should include all of the following except Financing costs Terminal value Marginal taxes Depreciation Indirect cash flows often affect a company's capital budgeting decisions. However, some of these indirect cash flows are relevant to capital budgeting decisions (because they represent marginal cash flows that depend on the project's acceptance), but others should be ignored are cash flows that the company forgoes as a result of accepting the project under consideration. In general, these are cash flows of the next best alternative to the project Consider the case of Bumbly Products Ltd. The company is evaluating a capital budgeting project and has come across a few issues that require special attention. Classify each item as a sunk cost, cannibalisation, opportunity cost, or a change in net working capital (NWC). Then, in the last column, indicate whether the item should be included in the project's analysis or not Sunk Opportunity Cost Change in NWC Include in Cost Cannibalisation the Analysis? The new project is expected to increase the company's overall sales, but it wl take away some of the market share from some of its existing products The factory that the project will use could be used for another project that is expected to have a slightly positive net present value (NPV) Before finalising on this new project, the company tested some earlier prototypes that are not being used in the current product. For this new product, the company will use an aggressive selling strategy and offer 90-day credit to its For this new product, the company will use an aggressive selling strategy and offer 90-day credit to its customers. This will lead to an increase in accounts receivable. The project will use some raw materials that the company has in its inventory and can sell at a certain price Imagine Bumbly will be issuing debt to support this project and other capital budgeting projects this year. The company's interest expense will increase by $700,000. Should the change in interest expense be included in the analysis? O No O Yes