[Solution Library] Present Value Costs Your company wants to bring outdoor ice-skating to Palm Springs, California and must choose between two refrigeration
Question: Present Value Costs
Your company wants to bring outdoor ice-skating to Palm Springs, California and must choose between two refrigeration machines that do the same job but have different life spans. The two machines have the following costs in each year:
| Year | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Machine A | $30,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 & Replace | |||||
| Machine B | $40,000 | $7,000 | $7,000 | $7,000 | $7,000 & Replace |
These costs are expressed in real terms. Assume a 6 percent real discount rate and ignore taxes.
- Explain whether the concept of Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC) would be useful for evaluating these two investments. In your answer please define EAC.
- As the company’s financial manager, if you had to buy one or the other machine, which one would you buy? Why?
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