Question: please answer part 1 and 2 : Devon Inc. has developed a powerful efficient snow blower that is significantly less polluting than existing snow blowers

please answer part 1 and 2:
Devon Inc. has developed a powerful efficient snow blower that is significantly less polluting than existing snow blowers currently on the market. The company spent $2,500,000 developing this product and the marketing department spent another $350,000 to assess the market demand. It would cost $25 million at Year 0 to buy the equipment necessary to manufacture the efficient snow blower. The project would require net working capital at the beginning of each year equal to 20% of sales (NOWC0=20%(Sales1), NOWC1=20%(Sales 2), etc.). The efficient snow blowers would sell for $3,500 per unit, and the company believes that variable costs would amount to $990 per unit. The company expects that the sales price and variable costs would increase at the inflation rate of 4% after year 1. The company's non-variable costs would be $800,000 in Year 1 and are expected to increase with inflation. The efficient snow blower project would have a life of 4 years. If the project is undertaken, it must be continued for the entire 4 years. Also, the project is expected to be of average risk. The firm believes it could sell 3,500 units per year.
The equipment would be depreciated using a CCA rate of 30%. The estimated market value of the equipment at the end of the project's 4-year life is its undepreciated capital cost (i.e. book value) at the end of year 4. The company has other assets in this asset class. Toefield Inc.'s federal-plusprovincial tax rate is 30%. Its cost of capital is 7% for average risk projects. Low-risk projects are evaluated with a WACC of 6%, and high-risk projects at 10%. Assume that the half-year rule applies to the CCA.
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a. Develop a spreadsheet model and use it to find the project's NPV, IRR, and payback.
Part 1. Input Data (in thousands of dollars except for unit amount)
Equipment cost
Net Operating WC/sales
Yearly sales (in units)
Sales price per unit
Variable cost per unit
Non-variable costs
Part 2. CCA Schedule
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\table[[,,,year 1,year 2,year 3,year 4],[Beg. UCC,,,,,,],[CCA,,,,,,],[End UCC,,,,,,]]
please answer part 1 and 2 : Devon Inc. has

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