An oil refinery must now begin sending its waste liquids through a costly treatment process before discharging them. The engineering department estimates costs at $300,000 for the first year. It is estimated that if process and plant alterations are made, the waste treatment cost will decline $30,000 each year. As an alternate, a specialized firm, Hydro-Clean, has offered a contract to process the waste liquids for 10 years for $150,000 per year. Either way, there should be no need for waste treament after 10 years. Required:
Use an 8% interest rate and annual cash flow analysis to determine whether the Hydro-Clean offer should be accepted.

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Ummit record company is negotiating with two banks for a $157,000 loan. fidelity bank requires a compensating balance of 24 percent, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. southwest bank requires a compensating balance of 12 percent, does not discount the loan, but wants to be paid back in 12 monthly installments. the stated rate for both banks is 9 percent. compensating balances will be subtracted from the $157,000 in determining the available funds in part a. a-1. calculate the effective interest rate for fidelity bank and southwest bank. (do not round intermediate calculations. input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) a-2. which loan should summit accept? southwest bank fidelity bank b. recompute the effective cost of interest, assuming that summit ordinarily maintains $37,680 at each bank in deposits that will serve as compensating balances