Greetings,

I've been working on this problem for awhile and am really struggling. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!

A company has an investment opportunity to produce a new product. The required investment on January 1 of this year is $185 million. The firm will depreciate the investment to zero using the straight-line method over four years. The investment has no resale value after completion of the project. The firm is in the 34 percent tax bracket. The price of the product will be $510 per unit, in real terms, and will not change over the life of the project. Labor costs for Year 1 will be $16.00 per hour, in real terms, and will increase at 3 percent per year in real terms. Energy costs for Year 1 will be $4.50 per physical unit, in real terms, and will increase at 2 percent per year in real terms. The inflation rate is 5 percent per year. Revenues are received and costs are paid at year-end. Refer to the following table for the production schedule:

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

Physical production, in units 170,000 180,000 200,000 190,000

Labor input, in hours 1,175,000 1,255,000 1,415,000 1,335,000

Energy Input, in physical units 265,000 285,000 305,000 290,000

The real discount for the company is 4 percent.

Finding a solution in dollars, not millions of dollars, not rounding intermediate calculations, and rounding an answer to two decimal places, (e.g. 8,492,201.93), what is the NPV of this project?