Fundamentals of Financial Management (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston
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Chapter 20, Problem 5P
a.
Summary Introduction
To Determine: Whether Company MMM can lease or borrow to buy the equipment by supposing that the lease can be organized.
Introduction: A lease is characterized as an agreement between a lessee and a lessor for the contract of a particular asset for a particular period on payment of determined rents.
b.
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To Discuss: Whether it is suitable to discount it at the similar rate as the another cash flow and whether all the other cash flows are equally risk.
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lease the machinery. Assume that the following facts apply:
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2. Under either the lease or the purchase, Big Sky must pay for insurance, property taxes, and maintenance.
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principal repaid at Year 4.
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Year
A W NI
2
3
4
MACRS
Allowance Factor
0.3333
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