How should you handle the $10,000 payment to the Consultant? Why? Be specific. 2. How should you handle the $150 per hour charge for computer time charged by the shipping department to the production department? Why? Be specific. 3. What discount rate should you use? Why? 4. Calculate the NPV of each alternative using the five steps of capital budgeting and the cost savings shown in Figure 1 above. For Question #4, assume that there is no salvage value. At this stage of the analysis, we are assuming that at the end of the equipment's five-year life, it will be scrapped for zero value.