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You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. The Techron I c

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Question

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. The Techron I costs $213,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $54,000 per year. The Techron II costs $375,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $27,000 per year. For both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project's life and assume a salvage value of $31,000. If your tax rate is 30 percent and your discount rate is 9 percent, compute the EAC for both machines. Please show each step. You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. The Techron I costs $213,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $54,000 per year. The Techron II costs $375,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $27,000 per year. For both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project's life and assume a salvage value of $31,000. If your tax rate is 30 percent and your discount rate is 9 percent, compute the EAC for both machines. Please show each step.

Explanation / Answer

Techron I

Annual cash outflow = operating cost *(1-tax rate) - Depreciation*tax rate

Annual cash outflow = 54000*(1-30%) - 213000/3*30%

Annual cash outflow = 16500

Post Tax salvage Value = salvage value - tax rate*(salvage value - book value)

Post Tax salvage Value = 31000-30%*(31000-0)

Post Tax salvage Value = 21700

PV of Cost = Initial Investment + Annual cash outflow *PVA(rate,nper) - Post Tax salvage Value *PV(rate,nper)

PV of Cost = 213000 + 16500*PVA(9%,3) - 21700*PV(9%,3)

PV of Cost =  213000 + 16500*2.53129- 21700*0.77218

PV of Cost = $ 238009.98

EAC = PV of Cost / PVA(rate,nper)

EAC = 238009.98/PVA(9%,3)

EAC = 238009.98/2.53129

EAC = $ 94027.15

Techron II

Annual cash outflow = operating cost *(1-tax rate) - Depreciation*tax rate

Annual cash outflow = 27000*(1-30%) - 375000/5*30%

Annual cash outflow = -3600

Post Tax salvage Value = salvage value - tax rate*(salvage value - book value)

Post Tax salvage Value = 31000-30%*(31000-0)

Post Tax salvage Value = 21700

PV of Cost = Initial Investment + Annual cash outflow *PVA(rate,nper) - Post Tax salvage Value *PV(rate,nper)

PV of Cost = 375000 -3600*PVA(9%,5) - 21700*PV(9%,5)

PV of Cost = 375000 -3600*3.88965- 21700*0.64993

PV of Cost = $ 346,893.78

EAC = PV of Cost / PVA(rate,nper)

EAC =  346,893.78/PVA(9%,5)

EAC = 346,893.78/3.88965

EAC = $ 88183.80

Decision : Select Techron II as its Effective Annual cost is lower than Techron I

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