Caroline runs her own business selling horse related products (saddles, boots, bridles, etc.). She is considering investing $70,000 into an operating systems for security and data management for online ordering. After 8 years the equipment has a salvage value of $18,000. In the third year a major update is expected to cost $5,000. The operating costs per year are $2,000 for license and IT contracts. a) Draw the cash flow diagram.
b) What is the present value the expected costs of the new security and data management system (including salvage value) using a 5% interest rate?

The present value the expected costs of the new security and data management system is $-75,062.5

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a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.