Western gas & electric company (wgc) can borrow funds at an interest rate of 12.50% for a period of six years. its marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 25%. wgc’s after-tax cost of debt is (rounded to two decimal places). at the present time, western gas & electric company (wgc) has 15-year noncallable bonds with a face value of $1,000 that are outstanding. these bonds have a current market price of $1,329.55 per bond, carry a coupon rate of 12%, and distribute annual coupon payments. the company incurs a federal-plus-state tax rate of 25%. if wgc wants to issue new debt, what would be a reasonable estimate for its after-tax cost of debt (rounded to two decimal places)? (note: round your ytm rate to two decimal place.)

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Special order carson manufacturing, inc., sells a single product for $36 per unit. at an operating level of 8,000 units, variable costs are $18 per unit and fixed costs $10 per unit. carson has been offered a price of $20 per unit on a special order of 2,000 units by big mart discount stores, which would use its own brand name on the item. if carson accepts the order, material cost will be $3 less per unit than for regular production. however, special stamping equipment costing $4,000 would be needed to process the order; the equipment would then be discarded. assuming that volume remains within the relevant range, prepare an analysis of differential revenue and costs to determine whether carson should accept the special order. use a negative sign with answer to only indicate an income loss from special order; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers.

Mandalay hotel bases its budgets on guest-days. the hotel's static budget for august appears below: budgeted number of guest-days 4,300 budgeted variable costs: supplies (@$9.60 per guest-day) $ 41,280 laundry (@$9.40 per guest-day) 40,420 total variable cost 81,700 budgeted fixed costs: wages and salaries 57,190 occupancy costs 52,030 total fixed cost 109,220 total cost $ 190,920 the total cost at the activity level of 5,200 guest-days per month should be: