Livewire Inc. is a technology company that reported a pre-‐ tax operating loss in the most recent year of $10 million, after expensing R&D expenses of $30 million during the year. The company reported invested capital of $40 million at the end of the most recent year. You are told that the R&D typically takes 3 years to payoff in this business, and that Livewire had R& D expenses of $24 million, $18million and $12 million in each of the last 3 years. Assuming that you decide to capitalize R&D expenses.

What is the pre-‐ tax return on capital for Livewire?

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To calculate the pretax return on capital for Livewire we need to adjust the operating loss by capit... View the full answer