Use the Following Information to Answer the Question(s)below

question 69

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
Wyatt Oil issued $100 million in perpetual debt (at par) with an annual coupon of 7%.Wyatt will pay interest only on this debt.Wyatt's corporate tax rate is expected to be 21% for the foreseeable future.
-Assume that five years have passed since Wyatt issued this debt.While tax rates have remained at 21%,interest rates have dropped so that Wyatt's current cost of debt capital is now only 4%.Wyatt's annual interest tax shield is now closest to:

• A)$1.47 million.
• B)$4.20 million.
• C)$40.0 million.
• D)$60.0 million.

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Definitions:

Overhead Cost

Indirect costs of business operations, such as lighting, rent, and administrative salaries, not directly tied to a specific product or service.

Activity Rates

Used in activity-based costing, these rates are applied to specific activities to allocate costs accurately to products or services based on their consumption of those activities.

Traditional Costing Method

A costing methodology that allocates factory overhead to products based on the volume of production resources they consume.

Activity-Based Costing

Activity-based costing is an accounting method that assigns costs to products or services based on the activities and resources that go into producing them.