Exhibit 10-1 a Company Is in the Planning Phase of Constructing a Constructing

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Essay

Exhibit 10-1
A company is in the planning phase of constructing a new production facility. It wants to build a simulation model for the economics of the facility, and one key uncertain input is the construction cost. For each of the scenarios in the questions below, choose an "appropriate" distribution, together with its parameters, and explain your choice.
-Refer to Exhibit 10-1.Company management currently has no idea what the distribution of the construction cost is.All they can state is that "we think it will be somewhere between $5,000,000 and $8,000,000."

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Definitions:

Outstanding Voting Shares

The total number of shares of a corporation that are held by shareholders and eligible to vote at shareholder meetings.

Fair Value

The market value of an asset or liability, based on the current price at which it can be sold or settled.

Unrealized Loss

A loss that results from holding an asset that has decreased in value, but the asset has not yet been sold.

Deferred Tax Asset

This asset arises when a company pays more taxes to the government than it currently owes in its financial statements, to be used for future tax relief.