Question: Case Study : Assume that your group is working in Financial Department of a company that produces health care tools and equipment. Your company is

Case Study: Assume that your group is working in Financial Department of a company that produces health care tools and equipment. Your company is considering two potential projects as follow:

Project 1: : launching a new product of hearing aids. Your supplier offers you two options that have different cash outlay and generate different revenue but same useful life of 5 years. The table below shows the estimated data available to the companys Management:

Option A Option B
Initial Investment 1,205,000 1,315,000
Annual cash inflow
Year 1 290,000 315,000
Year 2 320,000 345,000
Year 3 360,000 356,000
Year 4 375,000 402,000
Year 5 480,000 540,000

Project 2: Buying a new assembly for wheelchair production. Your companies are offered two options that will generate the same revenue for the company each year. The table below shows the initial and annual costs for each option.

Option A Option B
Initial Investment 1,550,000 1,750,000
Annual cost, including fuel, maintaining and other relevant expenses
Year 1 42,000 35,000
Year 2 42,000 35,000
Year 3 42,000 35,000
Year 4 42,000 35,000
Year 5 35,000

Question: Risk Analysis and Project evaluation: NPV break-even analysis

Assume that for Project 2, the company finally chose Option B. It expects to sell 8,500 wheelchairs for an average price of $750 per unit. The assembly in Option B has a residual value of $350 000 at the end of the project. The company will need to add $ 850 000 in working capital which is expected to be fully retrieved at the end of the project. Other information is available below:

Depreciation method: straight line

Variable cost per unit: $120

Cash fixed costs per year: $35,000 of annual cost for assembly operation + $20,000 other fixed cost

Corporate marginal tax: 30%

Upon the forecast of unexpected economic conditions that may be caused by the current breakout of corona virus, the company management requires your Team to prepare a risk analysis for the case where the unit price of this product decreases by 25%.

Required: perform an NPV break-even analysis to identify break-even sales of the project when the unit price decreases by 25%.

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