One of your best friends from childhood, Hermione, is an entrepreneur that opened a pizza restaurant (called

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One of your best friends from childhood, Hermione, is an entrepreneur that opened a pizza restaurant (called The Crusty Crookshanks) five years ago. It has been a huge success, and she is currently considering investing to expand her operations. The property next door to her restaurant is for sale, so she is evaluating whether she should purchase that property, which would greatly expand the seating capacity, as well as allowing her to double the kitchen space, so she'd be able to cook many more pizzas daily (in the past few months she's had trouble keeping up with demand).

Hermione has hired you to help her with the financial analysis of this potential expansion project. As you're putting your 10-year projections together, you estimate the following:

The up-front cost of the new building, construction, and kitchen remodeling will be $5,550,000, and will take approximately one year. You estimate this can be depreciated over the first 5 years, using the following accelerated annual depreciation schedule: 35%, 30%, 20%, 10%, and 5%.

? Year 1 will have a sales reduction of $850,000 relative to not doing the expansion.

? Years 2 through 10 will have an increase in sales of $900,000 in year 2, growing by 8% per year.

? Costs will increase by $25,000 in year 2, growing by 5% per year.

? NWC investment of $350,000 today (recovered at the end).

? Salvage value of $1,750,000 at the end.

? Tax rate of 29%.

? The appropriate discount rate is 14%

Using your assumptions, find the NPV of the restaurant expansion. What is your recommendation to Hermione?