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- June 2, 2014 at 9:01 am #172555Hi Sir , kindly help me with the following question : A job requires 2400 actual labour hours for completion but it is anticipated that idle time will be 20 % of the total time required. if the wage rate is $10 per hour , what is the budgeted labour cost for the job , including cost of idle time? A. $19200 
 B. $24000
 C.$28800
 D.$30000June 2, 2014 at 12:39 pm #172620For every 100 hours that we pay for, 20 hours will be idle, and therefore 80 hours will be worked. (Or to put it the other way round – if we want 80 hours work, then we need to pay for 100 hours). So…..for 2400 hours work, we need to pay for 2400 x 100/80 hours. We will pay then at $10 per hour. June 2, 2014 at 6:21 pm #172939Thank you so much Sir. Sir i’m also having problems with test no 2 in investment appraisal: A company is considering investing in a new machine that will cost $270,000 and will last for 4 years with a 
 scrap value at the end of 4 years of $20,000.
 It is expected to generate operating cash inflows each year as follows:
 Year 1: $50,000
 Year 2: $180,000
 Year 3: $100,000
 Year 4 $50,000
 The cost of capital is 12% per annum.What is the Internal Rate of Return of the machine (to the nearest %)? Actually i cannot understand from where you got discounting as 20% June 3, 2014 at 8:01 am #173107Please start a new thread when it is a different question. To calculate the IRR you need to make two guesses and then approximate between them. 
 Here, one of the guesses was at 20%, but any guess will do.(It would be a good idea to watch my free lecture on calculating the IRR) 
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