Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance, 9th Edition
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ISBN: 9781260052220
Author: Richard Brealey; Stewart Myers; Alan Marcus
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 16, Problem 16QP
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To compute: The changes in after tax income for debt and equity combination.
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