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1d.
Original cost $150,000 $190,000
Total depreciation 130,000 165,000
2. The Smacker Company should retain the old equipment because the net present value of
the incremental cash flows from the new machine is negative. The computations, using the
results of requirement 1, are presented below. In this format the present value factors appear at
the bottom. All cash flows, year by year, are then converted into present values.
Initial machine investment
Current disposal price of old machine
Tax savings from loss on disposal of
old machine
Recurring after-tax cash-operating savings
Income tax cash savings from difference in
depreciation deductions
Additional after-tax cash flow from
terminal disposal of new machine
over old machine
Present value discount factors (at 14%)
a More precisely, January 1, 2011
3. Let $X be the additional recurring after-tax cash operating savings required each year to
make NPV = $0.