Cardinal Company is considering a five-year project that would require a $3,025,000 investment in equipment with a useful life of five years and no salvage value. The company’s discount rate is 16%. The project would provide net operating income in each of five years as follows:

Sales $ 2,737,000
Variable expenses 1,001,000
Contribution margin 1,736,000
Fixed expenses:
Advertising, salaries, and other
fixed out-of-pocket costs $ 610,000
Depreciation 605,000
Total fixed expenses 1,215,000
Net operating income $ 521,000
answer the following questions

a) What are the project’s annual net cash inflows?

b)What is the present value of the project’s annual net cash inflows?

c)What is the project’s net present value?

d)What is the project profitability index for this project?

e)What is the project’s internal rate of return?

f)What is the project’s payback period?

g)What is the project’s simple rate of return for each of the five years?

h)Assume a postaudit showed that all estimates (including total sales) were exactly correct except for the variable expense ratio, which actually turned out to be 50%. What was the project’s actual net present value?

i)Assume a postaudit showed that all estimates (including total sales) were exactly correct except for the variable expense ratio, which actually turned out to be 50%. What was the project’s actual payback period?

j)Assume a postaudit showed that all estimates (including total sales) were exactly correct except for the variable expense ratio, which actually turned out to be 50%. What was the project’s actual simple rate of return?