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- The Tinkan Company produces one-pound cans for the Canadian salmon industry. Each year the salmon spawn during a 24-hour period and must be canned immediately. Tinkan has the following agreement with the salmon industry. The company can deliver as many cans as it chooses. Then the salmon are caught. For each can by which Tinkan falls short of the salmon industrys needs, the company pays the industry a 2 penalty. Cans cost Tinkan 1 to produce and are sold by Tinkan for 2 per can. If any cans are left over, they are returned to Tinkan and the company reimburses the industry 2 for each extra can. These extra cans are put in storage for next year. Each year a can is held in storage, a carrying cost equal to 20% of the cans production cost is incurred. It is well known that the number of salmon harvested during a year is strongly related to the number of salmon harvested the previous year. In fact, using past data, Tinkan estimates that the harvest size in year t, Ht (measured in the number of cans required), is related to the harvest size in the previous year, Ht1, by the equation Ht = Ht1et where et is normally distributed with mean 1.02 and standard deviation 0.10. Tinkan plans to use the following production strategy. For some value of x, it produces enough cans at the beginning of year t to bring its inventory up to x+Ht, where Ht is the predicted harvest size in year t. Then it delivers these cans to the salmon industry. For example, if it uses x = 100,000, the predicted harvest size is 500,000 cans, and 80,000 cans are already in inventory, then Tinkan produces and delivers 520,000 cans. Given that the harvest size for the previous year was 550,000 cans, use simulation to help Tinkan develop a production strategy that maximizes its expected profit over the next 20 years. Assume that the company begins year 1 with an initial inventory of 300,000 cans.Haya International are considering a project that is susceptible to risk. An initial investment of OMR90,000 will be followed by four years each with the following ‘most likely’ cash flows (there is no inflation or tax): OMR OMR Annual Sales 400,000 (volume of 100,000 units multiplied by estimated sales price of OMR 4) Annual Costs Labour 200,000 Materials 40,000 Other 10,000 250,000 (250,000) 150,000 The initial investment consists of OMR80,000 in machines, which have a zero scrap value at the end of the four-year life of the project and OMR10,000 in additional working capital which is recoverable at the end. The discount rate is 10 per cent. Required : Calculate the NPV and show the sensitivity of NPV to changes in the following: Increase in sales price by 10%; Decrease in discount rate by 10%Quorex is evaluating two mutually exclusive projects. Project A has a net investment of $50,000 and net cash flows over a six-year period of $13,000 per year (NOTE: that project requires a reinvestment with the same cost and cash flow for another six years). Project B has a net investment of $48,500, but its net cash flows of $8,740 per year will occur over a 12-year period. If Quorex has a cost of capital of 14% for these projects, which project, if either, should be chosen, and what is its NPV?
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- depends on interest rate movement in the next 5 years. The various development projects and 8. Place-Plus, a real estate development firm, is considering several alternative development a projects. These include building and leasing building an office park, purchasing a parcel of land and an office building to rent, buying anmd leasing a warchouse, building a strip shopping ter, and building and selling condominiums. The financial success of these projects meir 5 year financial return (MU millions) given that interest rates will decline, remain stable or increase are shown in the following payoff table: Interest Rates Projects Office Park OfficeBuilding We Shopping Center Condominiums Decline Stable Increase 0.5 1.7 4.5 1.5 1.9 2.4 1.7 1.4 0.7 2.4 3.6 3.2 1.5 0.6 Determine the best investment using the following decision criteria: a. Maximax b. Maximin c. Minimax regret d. Equally Likely e. Hurwicz (a 0.3)n additional equipment (AE) costing$3,500,000 will be needed at the end of year 3. At the end of seven(7) years, the original equipment, IE, will have no resale value butthe supplementary equipment, AE, can be sold for $50,000. A workingcapital of $1,350,000 will be needed.The project is forecast to generate sales of agri-products over theseven years as follows:Year 1 70,000 unitsYear 2 100,000 unitsYears 3-5 250,000 unitsYears 6-7 325,000 unitsA sale price of $150 per unit for the first two years is expected andthen decline to $90 per unit thereafter as the newness of the productloses some sheen. The variable expenses will amount to 30% of salesrevenue. Fixed cash operating expenses will amount to $1,100,000 peryear.The company falls in the 25% tax category for ordinary income and 40%tax category for capital gain.The initial equipment is depreciated as per the 7-year MACRS systemand the additional equipment is depreciated on a straight-line basis.In the event of a negative taxable…Jody of Jody’s Custom Tailoring is considering expanding her growing business. The question is whether to expand with a bigger facility than she needs or with a small facility, knowing that she will have to reconsider expanding in three years. Jody has estimated the following chances for demand: The likelihood of demand being high is 0.50. The likelihood of demand being low is 0.50. She has also estimated profits for each alternative: Large expansion has an estimated profitability of either $200,000 or $100,000, depending on whether demand turns out to be high or low. Small expansion has a profitability of $80,000, assuming that demand is low. Small expansion with an occurrence of high demand would require considering whether to expand further. If the business expands at that point, the profitability is expected to be $120,000. If it does not expand further, the profitability is expected to be $70,000. Draw a decision tree and solve it. What should Jody’s Custom Tailoring do?