Devry Busn379 week 6 case
Case 2
Bullock Gold Mining
Seth Bullock, the owner of Bullock Gold
Mining, is evaluating a new gold mine in South Dakota. Dan Dority, the
company’s geologist has just finished his analysis of the mine site. He has
estimated that the mine would be productive for eight years, after which the
gold would be completely mined. Dan has taken an estimate of the gold deposits
to Alma Garrett, the company’s financial officer. Alma has been asked by Seth
to perform an analysis of the new mine and present her recommendation on
whether the new company should open the new mine.
Alma has used the estimates provided by Dan to determine the revenues that could be expected from the mine. She has also projected the expense of opening the mine and the annual operating expenses. If the company opens the mine, it will cost $725 million today, and it will have a cash outflow of $80 million nine years from today in costs associated with closing the mine and reclaiming the area surrounding it. The expected cash flows each year from the mine are shown in the table on this page. Bullock Mining has a 12 percent required return on all of its gold mines.
|
Year |
Cash Flow |
|
0 |
-$725,000,000 |
|
1 |
90,000,000 |
|
2 |
135,000,000 |
|
3 |
180,000,000 |
|
4 |
245,000,000 |
|
5 |
232,000,000 |
|
6 |
170,000,000 |
|
7 |
120,000,000 |
|
8 |
95,000,000 |
|
9 |
-80,000,000 |
- Construct a spreadsheet to calculate the payback period, internal rate of return, modified internal rate of return, and net present value of the proposed mine.
- Based on your analysis, should the company open the mine?
- Most spreadsheets do not have a built-in formula to calculate the payback period. Write a VBA script that calculates the payback period for a project.
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Solution: Devry Busn379 week 6 case