Garnet Corporation is considering issuing risk-free debt, or risk-free preferred stock. The tax rate on interest income is 35%, and the tax rate on dividends or capital gains from preferred stock is 15%. However, the dividends on preferred stock are not deductible for corporate tax purposes, and the corporate tax rate is 40%.

a. If the risk-free interest rate for debt is 6%, what is cost of capital for risk-free preferred stock?
b. What is the after-tax debt cost of capital for the firm? Which security is cheaper for the firm?
c. Show that the after-tax debt cost of capital is equal to the preferred stock cost of capital multiplied by (1 −τ*).

Which of the following is a characteristic that can be used to guide the design of service systems? a. services cannot be inventoried. b. services are all similar. c. quality work means quality service. d. services businesses are inherently entrepreneurial. e. even service businesses have internal services.

What two categories do strategic choices fall within? a. generic business strategies and cost leadership strategies b. business-level strategies and corporate-level strategies c. cost leadership strategies and corporate-level strategies d. diversification strategies and leadership strategies e. pricing strategies and cost-leadership strategies

Although gdp is a reasonably good measure of a nation's output, it does not necessarily include all transactions and production for that nation. which of the following scenarios are either not accounted for or measured inaccurately by either the income or the expenditure methods of calculating gdp for the united states? check all that apply. the value of babysitting services, when the babysitter is paid in cash and the transaction isn't reported to the government the variety of goods available to consumers funds spent by city governments to renovate their buildings the costs of air and water pollution when a u.s. company purchases and imports electronic parts from china to use to produce mp3 players within the united states, this purchase increases the component of gdp while also net exports by the same amount. therefore, the purchase of electronic parts from china causes in us gdp.