a) You have just landed an internship in the CFO's office of Hawkesworth Inc. Your first task is to estimate the Year 1 cash flow for a project with the following data. What is the Year 1 cash flow?

Sales revenues	$13,000
Depreciation	$4,000
Other operating costs	$6,000
Tax rate	25.0%

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Your new employer, Freeman Software, is considering a new project whose data are shown below. The equipment that would be used has a 3-year tax life, and the allowed depreciation rates for such property are 33.33%, 44.45%, 14.81%, and 7.41% for Years 1 through 4. Revenues and other operating costs are expected to be constant over the project's 10-year expected life. What is the Year 1 cash flow?

Equipment cost (depreciable basis)	$65,000
Sales revenues, each year	$60,000
Operating costs (excl. deprec.)	$25,000
Tax rate	25.0%

c) Century Roofing is thinking of opening a new warehouse, and the key data are shown below. The company owns the building that would be used, and it could sell it for $100,000 after taxes if it decides not to open the new warehouse. The equipment for the project would be depreciated by the straight-line method over the project's 3-year life, after which it would be worth nothing and thus it would have a zero salvage value. No new working capital would be required, and revenues and other operating costs would be constant over the project's 3-year life. What is the project's NPV? (Hint: Cash flows are constant in Years 1-3.)

Project cost of capital (r)	10.0%
Opportunity cost	$100,000
Net equipment cost (depreciable basis)	$65,000
Straight-line deprec. rate for equipment	33.333%
Sales revenues, each year	$123,000
Operating costs (excl. deprec.), each year	$25,000
Tax rate	25%