Fresh Flour makes baking flour and sells its flour in 4 pound sacks or bags. The managers of Fresh Flour are considering whether the firm should make or buy the flour sacks. To make the sacks, Fresh Flour needs a $500,000 piece of equipment. Using this equipment, Fresh Flour can make a flour sack for $0.01 and, for simplicity, ignore taxes and assume that the $0.01 cost includes depreciation and
all other costs. Fresh Flour would finance the $500,000 investment using its own funds and, if it purchased the flour sacks from another firm, it would pay $0.19 a flour sack. The life span of the equipment is 10 years and it has no salvage value at the end of the ten years. If the discount rate is 6 percent and the firm needs 400,000 flour sacks a year, what is the net present value of the equipment?
A) -$28,126
B) $31,520
C) $29,926
D) -$45,852
C) $29,926
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