Jiminys Cricket Farm issued a 30-year, 8 percent semiannual bond 7 years ago. The bond currently sells

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Jiminy’s Cricket Farm issued a 30-year, 8 percent semiannual bond 7 years ago. The bond currently sells for 95 percent of its face value. The company’s tax rate is 35 percent.

a. What is the pretax cost of debt?
b. What is the aftertax cost of debt?
c. Which is more relevant, the pretax or the aftertax cost of debt? Why?

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Fundamentals of corporate finance

ISBN: 978-0073382395

9th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan

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