The Blue Lagoon is considering a project with a five-year life. The project requires $32,000 of fixed assets that are classified as five-year property for MACRS. Variable costs equal 67 percent of sales, fixed costs are $12,600, and the tax rate is 34 percent. What is the operating cash flow for Year 4 given the following sales estimates and MACRS depreciation allowance percentages?
Year 1 2 3 4 5
Sales $ 32,000 $ 34,500 $ 35,600 $ 38,900 $ 42,000
MACRS rate 20.00 32.00 19.20 11.52 11.52
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−$1,806.67
$640.89
$1,311.16
$1,409.80
−$2,276.60
Time line | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
Cost of new machine | -32000 | |||||
=Initial Investment outlay | -32000 | |||||
5 years MACR rate | 20.00% | 32.00% | 19.20% | 11.52% | ||
Sales | 32000 | 34500 | 35600 | 38900 | ||
Profits | Sales-variable cost | 10560 | 11385 | 11748 | 12837 | |
Fixed cost | -12600 | -12600 | -12600 | -12600 | ||
-Depreciation | =Cost of machine*MACR% | -6400 | -10240 | -6144 | -3686.4 | |
=Pretax cash flows | -8440 | -11455 | -6996 | -3449.4 | ||
-taxes | =(Pretax cash flows)*(1-tax) | -5570.4 | -7560.3 | -4617.36 | -2276.604 | |
+Depreciation | 6400 | 10240 | 6144 | 3686.4 | ||
=after tax operating cash flow | 829.60 | 2679.70 | 1526.64 | 1409.796 |
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