Light Sweet Petroleum, Inc., is trying to evaluate a project with the following cash flows: If the company requires a 12% return on its investments, should they accept this project? Compute the IRR for this project. Based on your results, should the company accept this project?

The common stock and debt of northern sludge are valued at $65 million and $35 million, respectively. investors currently require a return of 15.9% on the common stock and a return of 7.8% on the debt. if northern sludge issues an additional $14 million of common stock and uses this money to retire debt, what happens to the expected return on the stock? assume that the change in capital structure does not affect the interest rate on northern’s debt and that there are no taxes.