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quillen compnay is performing a post-audit of a project completed one year ago.

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Question

quillen compnay is performing a post-audit of a project completed one year ago. the initial estimates were that the project would cost $250,000, would have a useful life of 9 years, zero salvage value, and would result in net annual cash flows of $46,000 per year. now that the investment has been in operation for 1 year; revised figures indicate that it actually cost $260,000, will have a useful life of 11 years, and will produce net annual cash flows of $39,000 per year. evaluate the success of the project. assume a discount rate of 10%.

Explanation / Answer

to check success of the project

we have to check NPV

NPV = -260,000+39000*PVIFA(10,11) =  -260,000+39000*6.4951 = -$6691.1

Project will be unsuccessful as its NPV is negative