Robert is currently working for a landscaping company earning $1520 per month. he has a dream of starting his own landscaping company and figures he would need to save $5000 to buy his own equipment. select the budget that would robert most quickly achieve his financial goal of starting his own business, while still meeting his basic needs.

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.