Equivalent annual cost From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In finance the equivalent annual cost (EAC) is the cost per year of owning and operating an asset over its entire lifespan. EAC is often used as a decision making tool in capital budgeting when comparing investment projects of unequal lifespans. For example if project A has an expected lifetime of 7 years‚ and project B has an expected lifetime of 11 years it would be improper to simply compare the net present values (NPVs) of the
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including a small dry-cargo vessel‚ the Vital Spark. The Vital Spark is 25 years old and badly in need of an overhaul. Peter Handy‚ the finance director‚ has just been presented with a proposal that would require the following expenditures: Mr. Handy believes that all these outlays could be depreciated for tax purposes in the seven-year MACRS class. NETCO ’s chief engineer‚ McPhail‚ estimates the postoverhaul operating costs as follows: These costs generally increase with inflation
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Analysis The annual maintenance coast of machine shop is P 69‚994. If the cost of making a forging is P 56 per unit and its selling price is P 135 per forged unit‚ find the number of unit to be forged to break-even. Solution: Let: x = number of units to be forged to break-even Income = 135x Expenses = 69‚994 + 56x To break-even: Income = Expenses 135x = 69‚994 + 56x 79x =69‚994 x = 886 units Steel drum manufacturer incurs a yearly fixed operating cost of $ 200
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per year. One of the SKUs has the following characteristics. Demand (D) = 20‚000 units/year Ordering cost (S) = $40/order Holding cost (H) = $2/unit/year Lead time (L) = 2weeks Cycle-service level = 95% Demand is normally distributed with a standard deviation of weekly demand of 100 units. Current on-hand inventory is 1.040 units with no scheduled receipts and no backorders. 1. Calculate the item’s EOQ. What is the average time‚ in weeks between orders? EOQ = (2DS)/H EOQ = (2*20000*40)/2
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MIT ICAT Operating Costs and Productivity Measures Dr. Peter P. Belobaba 16.75J/1.234J Airline Management February 15‚ 2006 MIT ICAT DOT Form 41 • Form 41 contains traffic‚ financial‚ and operating cost data reported to the DOT by US Major airlines – Data is reported and published quarterly for most tables – Detail of reporting differs for different expense categories • Aircraft operating expenses by aircraft type and region of operation • Other expenses more difficult to allocate
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The first such report appears below: Note that the revenues and costs in the above report are unit revenues and costs. For example‚ the average office expense is $135 per exchange completed on the planning budget; whereas‚ the average actual office expense is $112 per exchange completed. Legal and search fees is a variable cost; office expenses is a mixed cost; and equipment depreciation‚ rent‚ and insurance are fixed costs. In the planning budget‚ the fixed component of office expenses was
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Uniform Annual Equivalent (UAE) - A Capital Budgeting Method. (The evaluation of two mutually exclusive projects with varying lives requires careful examination of the existence of the reinvestment opportunities at the end of the different economic lives of the projects. The current article deals with a method that may be adopted in situations wherein the level of investments‚ the life of the projects and cash inflows (or outflows) are unequal.) Risk is inherent in almost every business decisions
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Variable Cost Behavior [LO1] Espresso Express operates a number of espresso coffee stands in busy suburban malls. The fixed weekly expense of a coffee stand is $1‚200 and the variable cost per cup of coffee served is $0.22. Requirement 1: Fill in the following table with your estimates of total costs and cost per cup of coffee at the indicated levels of activity for a coffee stand. (Round average cost per cup of coffee to 3 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.) 2‚000 Fixed cost Variable
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capital 150 000 Plant Maintenance Reserve 30 000 Retained earnings 87 500 At this date all identifiable net assets of Turin Ltd were recorded at fair value except for: Carrying Amount Fair Value $ $ Inventory 39 000 51 000 Machinery (cost $250 000) 195 000 210 000 On 12 March 2008‚ a lawsuit claiming damages of $50 000 was lodged against Turin Ltd by one of its customers. A court hearing is scheduled for January 2009. Turin Ltd has not recognised any liability for damages arising
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large company. Actual costs Static Incurred budget Activity level (in units) 800 750 Variable costs: Indirect materials $6‚850 $6‚600 Electricity $1‚312 $1‚275 Fixed costs: Administration $3‚570
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