You own a factory that can produce up to 1M widgets per year. Each widget costs $1.50 to produce. The market price of a widget will be either $2.50 (good economy) or $1.75 (bad economy) next year. All production, costs, and revenues occur at the end of the year. If you can wait until the end of the year to decide to produce or not, construct the set of possible payoffs at time 1 of the factory. NOTE: Do not attempt to find the value of the project.

You own a factory that can produce up to 1M widgets per year. Each widget costs...
You own a factory that can produce up to 1M widgets per year. Each widget costs $1.50 to produce. The market price of a widget will be either $2.50 (good economy) or $1.75 (bad economy) next year. All production, costs, and revenues occur at the end of the year. If you can wait until the end of the year to decide to produce or not, construct the set of possible payoffs at time 1 of the factory. NOTE: Do not...
You own an oil well that can produce 100k barrels of oil one year from now. Next year, the price of oil will be either $80/barrel if the economy is good and $40/barrel if the economy is bad. Oil costs $50/barrel to extract. One year forwards for oil has a forward price of $55 and the risk-free rate is 4%. What is the value of the oil well if you have to decide today whether to drill for oil or...
You purchase a widget-making machine that can produce $4,000 worth of widgets each year for up to four years. However, there is a 15% chance that the machine will break entirely at the end of each year after the cash for that year has been produced. (This is roughly the process describing how incandescent light bulbs burn out, too.) What is the expected NPV of this widget machine? Assume a 10.9% discount factor, applicable beginning with the first $4,000. ___________________...
A copper mine has 100 pounds of raw material that we can extract one year from now. The extraction costs are $0.30 per pound which we would incur one year from now. The one-year forward price of copper is $0.35 per pound. Our analysts estimate that one year from now, the copper price will be either $0.60/pound in a good economy or $0.20/pound in a bad economy. The risk-free rate is 4%. If we don't extract the copper one year...
You own a wholesale plumbing supply store. The store currently generates revenues of $1 million per year. Next year (the year to t=1), revenues will either decrease by 10% or increase by 5%, with equal probability, and then stay at that level as long as you operate the store. Other costs run $900,000 per year. Due to an agreement with the trade union, you have to keep this store operating for at least 3 years. Starting from the end of...
Can) ou are in the process of purchasing a new automobile that will cost you $27,500. The dealership is offering you either a $2,500 rebate (applied toward the purchase price) or financing at a 0.9% APR for 48 months (with payments made at the end of the month) and no rebate. You have been pre-approved for an auto loan through your local credit union at an interest rate of 5.5% APR for 48 months. If you take the $2,500 rebate...
#1 Van Buren, Inc., currently pays $2.24 per share in dividends on its common stock. Dividends are expected to grow at 7.00 % per year forever. If you require a 13.00 % rate of return (i.e., the discount rate) on this investment, what value would you place on a share of Van Buren common stock? Assume that the current dividend was just paid. Answer format: Currency: Round to 2 decimal places # 2 Bad Investment Incorporated has "promised" investors to...
BLADES, INC. CASE Consideration of Direct Foreign Investment For the last year, Blades, Inc., has been exporting to Thailand in order to supplement its declining U.S. sales. Under the existing arrangement, Blades sells 180,000 pairs of roller blades annually to Entertainment Products, a Thai retailer, for a fixed price denominated in Thai baht. The agreement will last for another 2 years. Furthermore, to diversify internationally and to take advantage of an attractive offer by Jogs, Ltd., a British retailer, Blades...
Budgeting for an Academic Department at a State University: Can You Believe the Numbers? INTRODUCTION You are the senior accounting faculty member in the business school and your dean, Dean Weller, is asking for help. She is very discouraged after a midyear budget meeting with the Vice President of Finance. The college's Department of Social Work has a large budget deficit, and because of this the VP is inclined towards closing the department entirely or closing its bachelor's program. The...