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.