Suppose your company needs $12 million to build a new assembly line. your target debt-equity ratio is .5. the flotation cost for new equity is 12 percent, but the flotation cost for debt is only 9 percent. your boss has decided to fund the project by borrowing money because the flotation costs are lower and the needed funds are relatively small. a. what is your company’s weighted average flotation cost, assuming all equity is raised externally? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)

weighed average flotation cost %

b. what is the true cost of building the new assembly line after taking flotation costs into account? (enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole dollar, e. g. 1,234,567.)

true cost $

Salty sensations snacks company manufactures three types of snack foods: tortilla chips, potato chips, and pretzels. the company has budgeted the following costs for the upcoming period: 1 factory depreciation $33,782.00 2 indirect labor 84,456.00 3 factory electricity 8,446.00 4 indirect materials 40,356.00 5 selling expenses 26,900.00 6 administrative expenses 17,200.00 7 total costs $211,140.00 factory overhead is allocated to the three products on the basis of processing hours. the products had the following production budget and processing hours per case: budgeted volume (cases) processing hours per case tortilla chips 3,600 0.25 potato chips 5,300 0.11 pretzels 2,300 0.49 total 11,200 required: a. determine the single plantwide factory overhead rate.* b. use the factory overhead rate in (a) to determine the amount of total and per-case factory overhead allocated to each of the three products under generally accepted accounting principles. refer to the amount descriptions list provided for the exact wording of the answer choices for text entries.* * if required, round your answers to the nearest cen