You are considering constructing a new plant in a remote wilderness area to process the ore from a planned mining operation. you anticipate that the plant will take a year to build and cost $ 105 million upfront. once built, it will generate cash flows of $ 18 million at the end of every year over the life of the plant. the plant will be useless 20 years after its completion once the mine runs out of ore. at that point you expect to pay $ 255 million to shut the plant down and restore the area to its pristime state. using a cost of capital of 12 %: , what is the npv of the project? is using the irr rule reliable for the project? what are the irr's of the project

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.

When a company produces and sells x thousand units per week, its total weekly profit is p thousand dollars, where upper p equals startfraction 800 x over 100 plus x squared endfraction . the production level at t weeks from the present is x equals 4 plus 2 t. find the marginal profit, startfraction dp over dx endfraction and the time rate of change of profit, startfraction dp over dt endfraction . how fast (with respect of time) are profits changing when tequals8?

What is the difference between the contractual interest rate and the market interest rate?