McGilla Golf Has Decided to Sell a New Line of Golf

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McGilla Golf has decided to sell a new line of golf clubs.The clubs will sell for $500 per set and have a variable cost of $200 per set.The company spent $113,000 for a marketing study that determined the company will sell 58,000 sets per year for 7 years.The marketing study also determined that the company will lose sales of 15,000 sets of its high-priced clubs.The high-priced clubs sell at $700 and have variable costs of $300.The company will also increase sales of its cheap clubs by 9,000 sets.The cheap clubs sell for $200 and have variable costs of $100 per set.The fixed costs each year will be $7,559,000.The company has also spent $1,133,000 on research and development for the new clubs.The plant and equipment required will cost $21,000,000 and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis over the life of the project.The new clubs will also require an increase in net working capital of $1,053,000 that will be returned at the end of the project.The tax rate is 40 percent,and the cost of capital is 8 percent.What is the IRR?

A) 7.51 percent
B) 7.82 percent
C) 8.13 percent
D) 8.49 percent
E) 8.62 percent