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Major Equipment Purchase and Expansion into Europe Projects
Subject
Business Finance

Question Description
OVERVIEW: Create an Excel spreadsheet in which you use capital budgeting tools to determine the quality of 3 proposed investment projects, as well as a 6-8 page report that analyzes your computations and recommends the project that will bring the most value to the company.Ross, S. A., Westerfield, R. W., Jaffe, J. F., & Jordan, B. D. (2018). Corporate finance: Core principles and applications (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Available from the bookstore.
Chapter 5, "Interest Rates and Bond Valuation," pages 130–164. This chapter illustrates the employment of time value of money concepts to determine the value of corporate debt/bonds and common/preferred stock.
McCracken, M. (n.d.). Bond valuation [Video] | Transcript Retrieved from http://www.teachmefinance.com/bondvaluation.html
INSTRUCTIONS: The proposed projects for you to review are as follows.

Project A: Major Equipment Purchase

A new major equipment purchase, which will cost $10 million; however, it is projected to reduce cost of sales by 5% per year for 8 years.
The equipment is projected to be sold for salvage value estimated to be $500,000 at the end of year 8.
Being a relatively safe investment, the required rate of return of the project is 8%.
The equipment will be depreciated at a MACRS 7-year schedule.
Annual sales for year 1 are projected at $20 million and should stay the same per year for 8 years.
Before this project, cost of sales has been 60%.
The marginal corporate tax rate is presumed to be 25%.
Project B: Expansion into Europe

Expansion into Western Europe has a forecast to increase sales/revenues and cost of sales by 10% per year for 5 years.
Annual sales for the previous year were $20 million.
Start-up costs are projected to be $7 million and an upfront needed investment in net working capital of $1 million. The working capital amount will be recouped at the end of year 5.
Because of the higher European tax rate, the marginal corporate tax rate is presumed to be 30%.
Being a risky investment, the required rate of return of the project is 12%.