Question: Consider how Pine ValleyPine Valley, a popular ski resort, could use capital budgeting to decide whether the $9 million StreamStream Park Lodge expansion would be

Consider how Pine ValleyPine Valley, a popular ski resort, could use capital budgeting to decide whether the $9 million StreamStream Park Lodge expansion would be a good investment.

Assume that Pine ValleyPine Valley's managers developed the following estimates concerning a planned expansion to its

StreamStream Park Lodge (all numbersassumed):

Number of additional skiers per day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

118

Average number of days per year that weather

conditions allow skiing at Pine Valley. . . . . . . . .

160

Useful life of expansion (in years). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10

Average cash spent by each skier per day. . . . . . . . .

$235

Average variable cost of serving each skier per day. . .

$135

Cost of expansion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$9,000,000

Discount rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10%

Assume that Pine ValleyPine Valley uses the straight-line depreciation method and expects the lodge expansion to have a residual value of $500,000 at the end of its ten-year life. It has already calculated the average annual net cash inflow per year to be $1,888,000.

What is the projects NPV?

Net present value of expansion = ????

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