Lippo In. reports the following capital structure on its balance sheet: Debt $ 20 m, Preferred stock $ 10 m, Common stock $ 20 m
The debt has 10 years to maturity, carries a coupon rate of 6%, and sells at 86.58% of face value. The preferred shares have a face value of $100 each and pay an annual dividend of $11. They sell at $105 each. There are 1 million shares with a market price of $30 each. The stock has a beta of 1.2. The risk-free rate is 5%. Assume that the risk premium on the market portfolio is 6%. The tax rate is 40%. (Assume that flotation costs are negligible and bond coupons are paid annually.)
a. What is the after-tax cost of debt, preferred stock and common stock?
b. What is the weighted average cost of capital for the firm, if the current capital structure based on market values is the optimal capital structure?

Show the changes to the t-accounts for the federal reserve and for commercial banks when the federal reserve buys $50 million in u. s. treasury bills. if the public holds a fixed amount of currency (so that all loans create an equal amount of deposits in the banking system), the minimum reserve ratio is 10%, and banks hold no excess reserves, by how much will deposits in the commercial banks change? by how much will the money supply change? show the final changes to the t-account for commercial banks when the money supply changes by this amount.

Which of the following statements regarding the learning curve and economies of scale is accurate? answers: just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows. where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows. where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows. just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.

Brandt enterprises is considering a new project that has a cost of $1,000,000, and the cfo set up the following simple decision tree to show its three most likely scenarios. the firm could arrange with its work force and suppliers to cease operations at the end of year 1 should it choose to do so, but to obtain this abandonment option, it would have to make a payment to those parties. how much is the option to abandon worth to the firm?