Buy-Rite Pharmacy has purchased a small auto for delivering prescriptions. The auto was purchased for $23,000 and will have a 6-year useful life and a $5,200 salvage value. Delivering prescriptions (which the pharmacy has never done before) should increase gross revenues by at least $33,200 per year. The cost of these prescriptions to the pharmacy will be about $27,400 per year. The pharmacy depreciates all assets using the straight-line method. The payback period for the auto is closest to (Ignore income taxes.):
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Multiple Choice
4 years
3.1 years
4.9 years
4.7 years
Net annual cash flows = Gross revenues-Costs = 33200-27400= $5800 | |
Payback period = Investment cost/Net annual cash flows | |
Payback period = 23000/5800= 4 years | |
Option 1 is correct | |
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