Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
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Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan Professor
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Chapter 13, Problem 14QP
Calculating Flotation Costs Suppose your company needs $35 million to build a new assembly line. Your target debt-equity ratio is .75. 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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Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
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