Fundamentals of Corporate Finance with Connect Access Card
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ISBN: 9781259418952
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 14, Problem 18QP
Calculating Flotation Costs [LO4] Suppose your company needs $24 million to build a new assembly line. Your target debt–equity ratio is .60. The flotation
a. What do you think about the rationale behind borrowing the entire amount?
b. What is your company’s weighted average flotation cost, assuming all equity is raised externally?
c. What is the true cost of building the new assembly line after taking flotation costs into account? Does it matter in this case that the entire amount is being raised from debt?
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