A Mining Company Plans to Mine a Beach for Rutile

question 73

Multiple Choice

A mining company plans to mine a beach for rutile. To do so will cost $14 million up front and then produce cash flows of $7 million per year for five years. At the end of the sixth year the company will incur shut-down and clean-up costs of $6 million. If the cost of capital is 13.0%, then what is the MIRR for this project?

• A) -60.97%
• B) -78.39%
• C) -87.10%
• D) -95.81%

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Definitions:

Closing Entry

A journal entry made at the end of an accounting period to transfer temporary account balances to permanent accounts.

Revenue Accounts

Revenue accounts are those used in accounting to track the income generated by a business from its normal operations.

Income Summary

An account used in closing entries to summarize revenues and expenses for a specific accounting period before transferring the net income to retained earnings.

Reversing Entries

Accounting entries made at the beginning of a new period to negate the effects of adjustments made at the end of the previous period.