Table 1 Year   0   1   2   3   4   5

Incremental Earnings Forecast ($000)                              

1   Sales       -   26,000   26,000   26,000   26,000   -

2   Cost of Goods Sold       -   (11,000)   (11,000)   (11,000)   (11,000)   -

3   Gross Profits       -   15,000   15,000   15,000   15,000   -

4   Selling, General, and Administrative       -   (2,800)   (2,800)   (2,800)   (2,800)   -

5   Research and Development       (15,000)   -   -   -   -   -

6   Depreciation       -   (1,500)   (1,500)   (1,500)   (1,500)   (1,500)

7   EBIT       (15,000)   10,700   10,700   10,700   10,700   (1,500)

8   Income Tax at 40%       6,000   (4,280)   (4,280)   (4,280)   (4,280)   600

9   Unlevered Net Income       (9,000)   6,420   6,420   6,420   6,420   (900)

After looking at the projections of the HomeNet? project, you decide that they are not realistic. It is unlikely that sales will be constant over the? four-year life of the project.? Furthermore, other companies are likely to offer competing? products, so the assumption that the sales price will remain constant is also likely to be optimistic.? Finally, as production ramps? up, you anticipate lower per unit production costs resulting from economies of scale.? Therefore, you decide to redo the projections under the following?assumptions: Sales of 50,000 units in year 1 increasing by 50,000 units per year over the life of the? project, a year 1 sales price of $260?/unit, decreasing by 11% annually and a year 1 cost of $120?/unit decreasing by 21% annually. In? addition, new tax laws allow you to depreciate the? equipment, costing $7.5 million over three rather than five years using? straight-line depreciation.   

a. Keeping the underlying assumptions in Table (1 ?) that research and development expenditures total $15 million in year 0 and? selling, general and administrative expenses are $2.8 million per? year, recalculate unlevered net income.? (That is, reproduce Table 1 under the new assumptions given above. Note that we are ignoring cannibalization and lost? rent.)

b. Recalculate unlevered net income? assuming, in? addition, that each year 20% of sales comes from customers who would have purchased an existing Cisco router for $100?/unit and that this router costs $60?/unit to manufacture.