2. an overview of a firm's cost of debt for which capital component must you make a tax adjustment when calculating a firm’s weighted average cost of capital (wacc)? preferred stock debt equity 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.)

Refer to the payoff matrix. suppose that speedy bike and power bike are the only two bicycle manufacturing firms serving the market. both can choose large or small advertising budgets. is there a nash equilibrium solution to this game?

The relationship requirement for qualifying relative requires the potential qualifying relative to have a family relationship with the taxpayer. t or fwhich of the following is not a from agi deduction? a.standard deductionb.itemized deductionc.personal exemptiond.none of these. all of these are from agi deductions

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?