Agoura Manufacturing Mini-Case

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Agoura Manufacturing Mini-Case In the case of Agoura Manufacturing and their decision to buy, it’s more important that Agoura considers accounting profits earned as opposed to project free cash flows because the latter focuses on finding the salvage value of non-cash assets. According to the information on Agoura’s situation, it clearly states that there will be no salvageable value of their non-cash assets. Accounting profits earned equals the total earnings and includes the working capital, depreciation, interest and taxes. Depreciation is subtracted out of the net operating income and the taxable income. Depreciation is also a non-cash flow expense. It also occurs when the fixed asset was bought. A firm’s net operating income understates cash flows by the amount of its depreciation expenses that has been deducted for that certain period. With Agoura, their cost drops in the fifth year and their sales go down with it. Sunken costs are the costs that have been acquired no matter if the investment is undertaken. They are incremental cash flows. Sunk cost will increase the difficulty when an investment opportunity is being evaluated. Also these expenditures cannot be undone once the project is undertaken. Agoura purchased the equipment and the cost of the new plant, the price was 12.7 million. Whether or not this project pans out that money is spent. NPV and IRR In order to accurately calculate the NPV and the IRR one must take into account the initial working capital requirement of $100,000 for the first year and then 15% of sales for each of the following years. So for example earlier stated the gross profit of the first year was $9,475,000 you would take away the initial working capital requirement of $100,000. For each of the following years there is a slight calculation that needs to be done. Year two the revenue/sales was $47,250,000 so by

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