Capital Budget Proposals A B C Capital required $96,000 $60,000 $180,000 Annual operating return 24,960 20,400 16,200 Shellforth uses residual income to evaluate all capital budgeting projects. Its minimum required return is 10 percent.

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.