Groupe Ariel Analysis
Notes:
         After-tax Salvage Value  Market Salvage Value   Tax Rate   Gain on Sale
         Depreciation Tax Shield   Tax Rate  Depreciation
         Free Cash Flow   Operating Cash Flow   NWC  CAPX  After-tax Salvage Value where:
                    NWC = year-over-year change in net working capital (where net working capital is current assets minus current liabilities);
                    Operating Cash Flow  EBIT 1  Tax Rate   Depreciation
                                                                                                .
                                         EBITDA 1  Tax Rate   Deprecation   Tax Rate  .
        For the Groupe Ariel case, EBITDA in the operating cash flow formula above corresponds to pre-tax cost savings.
        Interest rate parity a la the Fischer effect:
                                               Foreign Discount Rate 
                                                                           1  Domestic Discount Rate 1  Foreign Inflation  1
                                                                                      1  Domestic Inflation
                                                                        Domestic Discount Rate  Foreign Inflation  Domestic Inflation
                                                                                                                                                     France Inflation                        3.0%
                                                                                                                                                     Mexico Inflation                        7.0%
                                                                                                                                                     Cost of Capital ,                      8.0%
A. Compute Project Cash Flows in Pesos
                                                       Year
                                                        0              1           2         3          4          5          6            7                  8                9           10
Expenditure                                             (3,500,000)
After-tax salvage value, old equipment                     201,250
Incremental cost savings, after tax                                   472,829    548,606    637,241    740,972    792,840    848,339     907,722                  971,263   1,039,251    1,111,999
Lose depreciation tax shields, old equipment                          (29,167)   (29,167)   (29,167)
Gain depreciation tax shields, new equipment                          122,500    122,500    122,500    122,500    122,500    122,500      122,500               122,500       122,500      122,500
Total peso cash flows                                   (3,298,750)   566,162    641,939    730,574    863,472    915,340    970,839    1,030,222             1,093,763     1,161,751    1,234,499
B. Approach #1: Discount Peso Cash Flows at Peso Discount Rate
                                                     Year
                                                       0               1          2          3          4          5          6            7                  8                9            10
Total peso cash flows                                  (3,298,750)    566,162    641,939    730,574    863,472    915,340    970,839    1,030,222             1,093,763     1,161,751    1,234,499
Cost of capital, pesos                                      0.1219      0.1219     0.1219     0.1219     0.1219     0.1219     0.1219       0.1219                0.1219        0.1219       0.1219
Discount factor, pesos                                       1.000       0.891      0.794      0.708      0.631      0.563      0.501        0.447                 0.398         0.355        0.316
Present value, pesos                                   (3,298,750)    504,627    509,980    517,313    544,963    514,909    486,772      460,404               435,673       412,459      390,650
Net present value, pesos                                1,478,999