Dog Up! Franks Is Looking at a New Sausage System

question 28

Multiple Choice

Dog Up! Franks is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $397,800.This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project's 7-year life,at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $61,200.The sausage system will save the firm $122,400 per year in pretax operating costs,and the system requires an initial investment in net working capital of $28,560.All of the net working capital will be recovered at the end of the project.The tax rate is 33 percent and the discount rate is 9 percent.What is the net present value of this project?

• A)-$41,311
• B)-$7,820
• C)$81,507
• D)$98,441
• E)$118,821

Evaluate and record stock issuance and related costs in business combination transactions.

Understand the treatment and impact of additional paid-in capital in business combinations.

Prepare journal entries to record business combination transactions, including stock issuance and payment of combination costs.

Create a fair value allocation and goodwill schedule as part of the business combination process.

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Definitions:

Income from Operations

Financial performance metric that calculates earnings from a company's core business operations, excluding deductions of interest and taxes.

DuPont Formula

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Investment Turnover

A measure of a company's efficiency in using its assets to generate sales or revenue; calculated by dividing sales by the average invested assets.

Profit Margin

A financial ratio that measures the percentage of profit a company makes for each dollar of sales.