Question

Nautical Creations is one of the largest producers of miniature ships in a bottle. An especially complex part of one of the ships needs special production equipment that is not useful for other products. The company purchased this equipment early in 2016 for $200,000. It is now early in 2020, and the manager of the Model Ships Division, Jeri Finley, is thinking about purchasing new equipment to make this part. The current equipment will last for four more years with zero disposal value at that time. It can be sold immediately for $35,000. The following are last year's total manufacturing costs, when production was 8,000 ships:

Direct materials	$28,800
Direct labor	30,000
Variable overhead	14,400
Fixed overhead	36,000
Total	$109,200

The cost of the new equipment is $150,000. It has a four year useful life with an estimated disposal value at that time of $50,000. The sales representative selling the new equipment stated, "The new equipment will allow direct labor and variable overhead combined to be reduced by a total of $1.90 per unit." Finley thinks this estimate is accurate, but also knows that a higher quality of direct material will be necessary with the new equipment, costing $0.17 more per unit. Fixed overhead costs will increase by $3,000.

Finley expects production to be 8,550 ships in each of the next four years. Assume a discount rate of 5%.

REQUIRED

1. What is the difference in net present values if Nautical Creations buys the new equipment instead of keeping their current equipment?

Answer 1

Solution 1:

Computation of Annual cost saving on new equipment
Particulars	Amount
Saving in direct labor and variable overhead (8550*$1.90)	$16,245.00
Decrease in fixed overhead cost	-$3,000.00
Additional cost of direct material (8550*$0.17)	-$1,453.50
Net Annual Saving	$11,791.50

Computation of NPV - Replacement proposal of equipment - Nautical Creations
Particulars	Period	Amount	PV Factor	Present Value
Cash Outflows:
Cost of new equipment	0	$150,000.00	1	$150,000
Sale value of old equipment	0	-$35,000.00	1	-$35,000
Present value of cash outflows (A)				$115,000
Cash Inflows	1-4	$11,791.50	3.54595	$41,812
Salvage value of new machine	4	$50,000.00	0.82270	$41,135
Present value of cash Inflows (B)				$82,947
NPV (B-A)				-$32,053