You're Trying to Determine Whether or Not to Expand Your

question 58

Multiple Choice

You're trying to determine whether or not to expand your business by building a new manufacturing plant.The plant has an installation cost of $29 million, which will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its three-year life.If the plant has projected net income of $1,848,000, $2,080,000, and $2,720,000 over these three years, what is the project's average accounting return (AAR) ?

• A)14.69 percent
• B)14.14 percent
• C)15.03 percent
• D)15.28 percent
• E)14.21 percent

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Definitions:

Cellular Differentiation

Process and developmental stages by which a cell becomes specialized for a particular function.

Specialized

Adapted or modified for a specific function or purpose.

Gastrulation

Formation of a gastrula from a blastula; characterized by an invagination to form cell layers of a caplike structure.

Blastopore

Opening into the primitive gut formed at gastrulation.