Lon Timur is an accounting major at a midwestern state university located approximately 60 miles from a major city. Many of the students attending the university are from the metropolitan area and visit their homes regularly on the weekends. Lon, an entrepreneur at heart, realizes that few good commuting alternatives are available for students doing weekend travel. He believes that a weekend commuting service could be organized and run profitably from several suburban and downtown shopping mall locations. Lon has gathered the following investment information. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Five used vans would cost a total of $75,000 to purchase and would have a 3-year useful life with negligible salvage value. Lon plans to use straight-line depreciation. Ten drivers would have to be employed at a total payroll expense of $48,000. Other annual out-of-pocket expenses associated with running the commuter service would include Gasoline $16,000, Maintenance $3,300, Repairs $4,000, Insurance $4,200, and Advertising $2,500. (a) Lon has visited several financial institutions to discuss funding. The best interest rate he has been able to negotiate is 15%. Use this rate for cost of capital. Lon expects each van to make 10 round trips weekly and carry an average of 6 students each trip. The service is expected to operate 30 weeks each year, and each student will be charged $12 for a round-trip ticket. Click here to view the factor table. Determine the annual (1) net income and (2) net annual cash flows for the commuter service. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125.) Net income Net annual cash flows $ $
Lon Timur is an accounting major at a midwestern state university located approximately 60 miles from a major city. Many of the students attending the university are from the metropolitan area and visit their homes regularly on the weekends. Lon, an entrepreneur at heart, realizes that few good commuting alternatives are available for students doing weekend travel. He believes that a weekend commuting service could be organized and run profitably from several suburban and downtown shopping mall locations. Lon has gathered the following investment information. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Five used vans would cost a total of $75,000 to purchase and would have a 3-year useful life with negligible salvage value. Lon plans to use straight-line depreciation. Ten drivers would have to be employed at a total payroll expense of $48,000. Other annual out-of-pocket expenses associated with running the commuter service would include Gasoline $16,000, Maintenance $3,300, Repairs $4,000, Insurance $4,200, and Advertising $2,500. (a) Lon has visited several financial institutions to discuss funding. The best interest rate he has been able to negotiate is 15%. Use this rate for cost of capital. Lon expects each van to make 10 round trips weekly and carry an average of 6 students each trip. The service is expected to operate 30 weeks each year, and each student will be charged $12 for a round-trip ticket. Click here to view the factor table. Determine the annual (1) net income and (2) net annual cash flows for the commuter service. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125.) Net income Net annual cash flows $ $
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Compute (1) the cash payback period and (2) the annual rate of return. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 10.50.)
Cash payback period
Annual rate of return
(c)
years
Net present value
%
Compute the net present value of the commuter service. (Round answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If the net present value is
negative, use either a negative sign preceding the number eg -45 or parentheses eg (45). For calculation purposes, use 5
decimal places as displayed in the factor table provided.)
Transcribed Image Text:Lon Timur is an accounting major at a midwestern state university located approximately 60 miles from a major city. Many of the
students attending the university are from the metropolitan area and visit their homes regularly on the weekends. Lon, an
entrepreneur at heart, realizes that few good commuting alternatives are available for students doing weekend travel. He believes that
a weekend commuting service could be organized and run profitably from several suburban and downtown shopping mall locations.
Lon has gathered the following investment information.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Five used vans would cost a total of $75,000 to purchase and would have a 3-year useful life with negligible salvage value.
Lon plans to use straight-line depreciation.
Ten drivers would have to be employed at a total payroll expense of $48,000.
Other annual out-of-pocket expenses associated with running the commuter service would include Gasoline $16,000,
Maintenance $3,300, Repairs $4,000, Insurance $4,200, and Advertising $2,500.
(a)
Lon has visited several financial institutions to discuss funding. The best interest rate he has been able to negotiate is 15%.
Use this rate for cost of capital.
Lon expects each van to make 10 round trips weekly and carry an average of 6 students each trip. The service is expected to
operate 30 weeks each year, and each student will be charged $12 for a round-trip ticket.
Click here to view the factor table.
Determine the annual (1) net income and (2) net annual cash flows for the commuter service. (Round answers to 0 decimal places,
e.g. 125.)
Net income
Net annual cash flows
$
$
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