A firm has decided to use the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to calculate the cost of its internal common stock equity for its WACC. If the firm has a beta of 1.39, the risk-free rate as measured by the rate on short-term U. S. Treasury bills is 3%, and the expected rate of return on the overall stock market is 12%. What would the firm's cost of common stock equity be

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60