Question

The financial staff of Cairn Communications has identified the following information for the first year of the roll-out of its new proposed service:

Projected sales $20 million
Operating costs (not including depreciation) 8 million
Depreciation 6 million
Interest expense 3 million
The company faces a 40% tax rate. What is the project's operating cash flow for the first year (t = 1)? Write out your answer completely. For example, 2 million should be entered as 2,000,000.
$ _______

Answer 1

$9,600,000

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the projected operating cash flow is given below:

= EBIT × (1 - tax rate) + depreciation expense

where

EBIT should be

= $20,000,000 - $8,000,000 - $6,000,000

= $6,000,000

Now the operating cash flow should be

= $6,000,000 × (1 - 0.40) + $6,000,000

= $3,600,000 + $6,000,000

= $9,600,000