Assignment 1: LASA # 2Capital Budgeting Techniques

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    Assignment 1: LASA # 2Capital Budgeting Techniques
    As a financial consultant you have contracted with Wheel Industries to evaluate their procedures involving the evaluation of long term investment opportunities. You have agreed to provide a detailed report illustrating the use of several techniques for evaluating capital projects including the weighted average cost of capital to the firm the anticipated cash flows for the projects and the methods used for project selection. In addition you have been asked to evaluate two projects incorporating risk into the calculations.
    You have also agreed to provide an 8-10 page report in good form with detailed explanation of your methodology findings and recommendations.
    Company Information
    Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project Project A. The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per year before tax and has additional annual costs of $600000. The Marginal Tax rate is 35%.
    Required:
    Wheel has two other possible investment opportunities which are mutually exclusive and independent of Investment A above. Both investments will cost $120000 and have a life of 6 years. The after tax cash flows are expected to be the same over the six year life for both projects and the probabilities for each year’s after tax cash flow is given in the table below.
    Investment B
    Investment C
    Probability
    After TaxCash Flow
    Probability
    After TaxCash Flow
    0.25
    $20000
    0.30
    $22000
    0.50
    32000
    0.50
    40000
    0.25
    40000
    0.20
    50000
    Turn in your completed work to theM5: Assignment 1 DropboxbyMonday March 6 2017.
    Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
    Maximum Points
    Correctly calculated the cost of new equity and explained the calculations as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm. (CO4)
    20
    Correctly calculated the cost of new debt and explained the calculations as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm. (CO4)
    20
    Correctly calculated the weighted average cost of capital and explained how and why it is used in the capital budgeting process. (CO4)
    20
    Correctly calculated the annual cash flows for the projects and explained the methods used in the calculations. (CO1)
    44
    Evaluated the projects using the NPV method and came to the correct conclusions based on the decision rules for the NPV. (CO2)
    44
    Evaluated the projects using the IRR method and came to the correct conclusion based on the decision rules for the IRR. Identified any conflicts between the IRR and the NPV and explained why these conflicts may occur. (CO 3)
    44
    Correctly introduced risk into the evaluation by using the expected values as the cash flows and evaluated these cash flows using risk adjusted discounted rates. (CO 5)
    44
    Written in a clear concise and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling grammar and punctuation.
    64
    Total:

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