Practical financial management lasher 7th ed chapter 011

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Chapter 11 Cash Flow Estimation

Cash Flow Estimation

Capital budgeting process consists of:

– Estimating the cash flows associated with projects, and then

Forecasting cash flows accurately is by far the more difficult and error prone process

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The General Approach to Cash Flow Estimation

A sales forecast leads to an estimate of cash inflows from customers

A cost/expense projection leads to a pattern of outflows to employees and vendors

An equipment plan leads to a series of outflows for capital assets

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The General Approach

Think through the events a project will bring about, and write down the financial implications of each Forecasts for new ventures tend to be the most complex

Pre-startup, the initial outlay:

Enumerate pre-start expenses (after tax) and all assets

that must be purchased

• Some are tax deductible, some are not

Sales Forecast

Forecast incremental units over time in spreadsheet form

Extend by prices for revenues

The General Approach

Cost of Sales and Expenses:

Base costs and expenses on a relationship with incremental revenues or units sold.

Assets:

Plan new assets when needed

Include working capital

Depreciation:

Plan depreciation for new and old assets

A non-cash item but it impacts taxes

Taxes and Earnings

Summarize tax deductible items in each period to calculate impact on taxes and earnings Treat incremental taxes like any other cash flow item

The General Approach to Cash Flow Estimation

Expansion Projects

new ventures

equipment and facilities

Replacement Projects

without generating new

revenue

less elaborate

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Project Cash Flows

Regardless of the project, the basic process is the same

Requires an initial outlay

Subsequent cash flows tend to be positive

Separable from the existing business

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Project Cash Flows

Sunk Costs

Opportunity Costs

– The value of a resource in its best alternative use

– The cost of a resource is whatever is given up to use it

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Project Cash Flows

Impacts on other parts of company

Estimating New Venture

Concept Connection Example 11-1

New Venture Cash Flows

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Wilmont Bicycle is considering a new business proposal to produce off-road bikes The following information is forecast:

Concept Connection Example 11-1

New Venture Cash Flows

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New building will cost $60,000

Land purchased 10 years ago for $30,700

Market value is now $150,000

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New Venture Cash Flows

Three percent of new units sold will come from the old line

– Prices and direct costs in the two lines are the same.

General overhead is about 5% of revenue

– Incremental overhead is estimated at 2% of revenues

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Revenues collected in 30 days

Incremental inventories

$12,000 at startup and for the first year

Then inventory turnover = 12 X

Payables will be 25% of inventories

Losses result in tax credits

Marginal tax rate is 34%

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Initial Outlay costs of hiring, training and advertising are tax deductible:

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Add operating items and assets for the total pre-start-up outlay:

Net after tax expenses $95.7

Assets subtotal $272.0

Actual pre-start-up outlay $367.7

Opportunity cost of land

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The building is

depreciated over 39 years

while the equipment is

depreciated over 5 years.

Sales are forecasted to grow for 4 years before

leveling off We’ll estimate for 6 years—for a longer

forecast repeat the last year as.

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New Venture Cash Flows

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Terminal Values

Cash flows forecast to continue forever are compressed into finite terminal values using perpetuity formulas

– A repetitive cash flow starting in year 7 is valued as a perpetuity

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Accuracy and Estimates

NPV and IRR techniques give the impression of great accuracy

Capital budgeting results are no more accurate than the projections used as inputs

Unintentional biases are a problem in capital budgeting

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MACRS—A Note on Depreciation

U.S government allows accelerated tax depreciation

MACRS sorts assets (equipment) into categories

– Specifies depreciation for each

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Estimating Cash Flows for Replacement Projects

Fewer elements than new ventures

Identifying what is incremental can be tricky

Difficult to determine what will happen if you don’t do the project

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Concept Connection Example 11-3 Replacement Projects

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Harrington purchased a machine five years ago for $80,000

Depreciated straight-line over eight years

New machinery depreciated straight line over five years

Considering replacing with a new one costing $150,000

Old unit can be sold for $45,000

Old machine - three operators $25,000/year each

New machine - two operators $25,000/year each

Concept Connection Example 11-3 Replacement Projects

The old machine has the following history of high maintenance cost and significant downtime.

Manufacturing managers estimate every hour of downtime costs the $500, but have no backup data

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New machine claims

Maintenance will cost $15,000/year and annual

Downtime about 30 hours

However, no guarantee after warranty

The new machine is expected to produce higher quality output resulting in better customer satisfaction and sales, but no one can quantify this result

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Harrington is currently profitable with a 34% tax rate

Estimate the incremental cash flows over the next five years associated with buying the new machine

Solution:

There are two kinds of cash flows in this problem—those that can be estimated fairly

objectively and those that require some degree of subjective guesswork

First consider the objective items

Objective Items - Initial Outlay

Selling an Old Asset

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The subjective benefits (involve opinion) are hard to quantify and lead to biases when estimated by people who

want project approval The financial analyst should ensure reasonability.

The question is: Should we assume maintenance on the old machine would have remained at $90.0 or increase as the machine gets older? Also, will maintenance on the new machine rise as it ages?

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Downtime: The new machine promises savings of 100 hours But, how reliable are those estimates?

And how much does each hour of downtime savings cost? Arguments range from nothing to $1,000 an hour

A middle-of-the-road approach of $400 an hour yields an estimated savings of $40,000 per year

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Combining these with the initial outlays yields the project’s estimated cash flow stream.

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