You work for a major consultancy firms in corporate finance. Your firm has been approached by one of its major clients to assist them in solving a problem that they have. You have been assigned the task to solve the client’s problem.
The client needs help with analyzing an investment opportunity given the following information: The initial cost is $2,000,000 and it will provide an EBIT of $400,000 at the end of each year for the next 10 years. The investment is depreciated linearly over the 10 years. The corporate tax rate is 30% and the firm has a D/E = 1/3. Finally, rD = 8% and rE = 15% for this project.
Your task is to create a spread sheet model for the client that calculates NPV/IRR with and without tax. Further, the client is uncertain about the project’s cost of capital therefore they also want you to show in a graph the NPV (with and without tax) for different discount rates. Use the interval 0% to 100% with 5% subintervals. Set the y-axis as NPV and use the x-axis for the discount rates.
N.B. Since the client wants to be able to use this spreadsheet in the future for other projects as well you need to use cell references in the formulas.