You’ve worked out a line of credit arrangement that allows y…

You’ve worked out a line of credit arrangement that allows you to borrow up to $35 million at any time. The interest rate is .52 percent per month. In addition, 2.5 percent of the amount that you borrow must be deposited in a non-interest-bearing account. Assume your bank uses compound interest on its line of credit loans. What is the effective annual interest rate on this lending arrangement?

McCanless Company recently purchased an asset for $2,000,000…

McCanless Company recently purchased an asset for $2,000,000 that will be used in a 3-year project. The asset is in the 4-year MACRS class. The depreciation percentage each year is 33.33 percent, 44.45 percent, 14.81 percent, and 7.41 percent, respectively. What is the amount of depreciation in Year 2?

Your employer just purchased $218,000 of equipment that is c…

Your employer just purchased $218,000 of equipment that is classified as five-year MACRS property. The MACRS rates are .2, .32, .192, .1152, .1152, and .0576 for Years 1 to 6, respectively. What will be the book value of this equipment at the end of three years assuming no bonus depreciation is taken?

Silo Mills is an all-equity financed firm that has a beta of…

Silo Mills is an all-equity financed firm that has a beta of 1.18 and a cost of equity of 12.2 percent. The risk-free rate of return is 2.9 percent. The firm is currently considering a project that has a beta of 1.03 and a project life of six years. What discount rate should be assigned to this project?

Over the past 12 years, the common stock of The Flower Shopp…

Over the past 12 years, the common stock of The Flower Shoppe has produced an arithmetic average return of 12.6 percent and a geometric average return of 12.3 percent. What is the projected return on this stock for the next five years according to Blume’s formula?