Cookies 'n Cream, Incorporated, recently issued new securities to finance a new TV show. The project cost $13.6 million, and the company paid $685,000 in flotation costs. In addition, the equity issued had a flotation cost of 6.6 percent of the amount raised, whereas the debt issued had a flotation cost of 2.6 percent of the amount raised. If the company issued new securities in the same proportion as its target capital structure, what is the company's target debt-equity ratio? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 4 decimal places, e.g., 32.1616.)
Cost of Capital
Shareholders and investors who invest into the capital of the firm desire to have a suitable return on their investment funding. The cost of capital reflects what shareholders expect. It is a discount rate for converting expected cash flow into present cash flow.
Capital Structure
Capital structure is the combination of debt and equity employed by an organization in order to take care of its operations. It is an important concept in corporate finance and is expressed in the form of a debt-equity ratio.
Weighted Average Cost of Capital
The Weighted Average Cost of Capital is a tool used for calculating the cost of capital for a firm wherein proportional weightage is assigned to each category of capital. It can also be defined as the average amount that a firm needs to pay its stakeholders and for its security to finance the assets. The most commonly used sources of capital include common stocks, bonds, long-term debts, etc. The increase in weighted average cost of capital is an indicator of a decrease in the valuation of a firm and an increase in its risk.
![Problem 14-21 Flotation Costs [LO4]
Cookies 'n Cream, Incorporated, recently issued new securities to finance a new TV
show. The project cost $13.6 million, and the company paid $685,000 in flotation costs.
In addition, the equity issued had a flotation cost of 6.6 percent of the amount raised,
whereas the debt issued had a flotation cost of 2.6 percent of the amount raised. If the
company issued new securities in the same proportion as its target capital structure,
what is the company's target debt-equity ratio? (Do not round intermediate calculations
and round your answer to 4 decimal places, e.g., 32.1616.)
> Answer is complete but not entirely correct.
Debt-equity ratio
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