A Company Is Planning to Purchase a Machine That Will

question 34

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A company is planning to purchase a machine that will cost $24,000, have a six-year life, and have no salvage value. The company expects to sell the machine's output of 3,000 units evenly throughout each year. Total income over the life of the machine is estimated to be $12,000. The machine will generate cash flows per year of $6,000. The payback period for the machine is 12 years.

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Definitions:

Intangibles

Assets that do not have physical substance but are still valuable because of their intellectual property or other value to the firm.

Expensed

The act of charging a cost as an expense in the income statement in the period it is incurred.

Capitalized

Expenditures or costs that are added to the cost basis of a fixed asset on a company's balance sheet, rather than being expensed immediately.

Goodwill

An intangible asset that arises when a company acquires another company for a price higher than the fair value of its net identifiable assets.