Assume the M&M with corporate taxes. The corporate tax rate is 40%. Your firm is currently unlevered with 100% equity. As of now, the value of the firm’s equity is $400K, and the firm’s cost of capital is 10%. Assume that your firm can borrow at 4% from a bank. Suppose that you decided to lever up by reducing equity and increasing debt. As the result, your firm now has $250K in debt. Your firm plans to maintain this debt amount forever. What is the present value of the interest tax shield?

Neveready flashlights inc. needs $317,000 to take a cash discount of 3/15, net 70. a banker will loan the money for 55 days at an interest cost of $13,200. a. what is the effective rate on the bank loan? (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) b. how much would it cost (in percentage terms) if the firm did not take the cash discount but paid the bill in 70 days instead of 15 days? (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) c. should the firm borrow the money to take the discount? no yes d. if the banker requires a 20 percent compensating balance, how much must the firm borrow to end up with the $317,000? e-1. what would be the effective interest rate in part d if the interest charge for 55 days were $7,200?

During 2016, nike inc., reported net income of $3,760 million. the company declared dividends of $1,022 million. the closing entry for dividends would include which of the following? select one: a. credit cash for $1,022 million b. credit dividends for $1,022 million c. debit net income for $1,022 million d. credit retained earnings for $1,022 million e. debit dividends for $1,022 million

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?