Question: Herjavec Enterprises is thinking about introducing a new surface cleaning machine. The marketing department has come up with the estimate that the company can sell

 Herjavec Enterprises is thinking about introducing a new surface cleaning machine.

Herjavec Enterprises is thinking about introducing a new surface cleaning machine. The marketing department has come up with the estimate that the company can sell 16 units per year at $310,000 net cash flow per unit for the next four years. The engineering department has come up with the estimate that developing the machine will take a $14.8 million initial investment. The finance department has estimated that a discount rate of 13 percent should be used. a. What is the base-case NPV? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89.) b. If unsuccessful, after the first year, the project can be dismantled and will have an aftertax salvage value of $11.5 million. Also, after the first year expected cash flows will be revised up to 21 units per year or down to o units with equal probability. What is the revised NPV? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g. 1,234,567.89.) a. Base-case NPV b Revised NPV

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