Delta corporation has the following capital structure:

cost (aftertax) weights weighted cost debt (kd) 5.5 % 25 % 1.38 % preferred stock (kp) 10.5 25 2.63 common equity (ke) (retained earnings) 10.5 50 5.25 weighted average cost of capital (ka) 9.25 %

a. if the firm has $26 million in retained earnings, at what size capital structure will the firm run out of retained earnings? (enter your answer in millions of dollars (e. g., $10 million should be entered as "10"

b. the 5.5 percent cost of debt referred to earlier applies only to the first $18 million of debt. after that the cost of debt will go up. at what size capital structure will there be a change in the cost of debt?

Companies under market structures are independent

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 )the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choice$91,900$(64,100)$(142,000)$(50,100)