7. Application Exercise, Vertical Module

Module 7: Investment analysis and value creation

From a spreadsheet which you will use as a framework (available here), you will evaluate the profitability of a capacity investment: the company buys a machine to manufacture and sell products during a given period.

You got the following information:

  • Investment lifetime 10 years
  • Number of products sold 10,000 units per year
  • Unit selling price $100
  • Unit production cost $55 (only cash items)
  • Machine purchasing price $1,350k
  • Corporate tax rate 40%
  • WACC 6%

The machine is evenly depreciated over its expected lifetime.

The attached file (see annex) discounts the cash-flows and accumulates them. Your task consists, then, to fill the cells in blue:

As the investment amount are given in $k, I suggest you use $k for all calculations.