Lord of Chips seeks your advice in measuring its overall cost of capital. The firm is in the 30% tax bracket. You have collected the following information.

Sources of Capital	Market price	New issue cost	Dividend/Coupon rate	Target capital Structure
Common Shares	$60.00	(see note 1)	(see note 1)	70%
Preferred shares	$52.00	$4.00	$5.25	10%
$1,000 Coupon Bond with 12 years to mature	$950.00	$20.00	8% (see note 2)	20%

Note 1: A new share issue will be priced $4.00 less than the current market price of the share. The issue will also cost $2.50 per share in flotation costs. During the last five years, the cash dividend paid for the common shares has grown from $3.91 to $5.24. The company expects to maintain the same dividend growth rate in the future.

Note 2: Lord of Chips pays coupon payments for the bonds annually.

Required: a. Explain the main limitations of using weighted average cost of capital as the benchmark required return for a firm's investment decision b. Calculate the individual cost of each source of financing. c. Calculate the firm's weighted average cost of capital (WACC) using the given market value based weights.

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