Which of the Following Statements Is CORRECT

question 65

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

• A) The tax-adjusted cost of debt is always greater than the interest rate on debt, provided the company does in fact pay taxes.
• B) If a company assigns the same cost of capital to all of its projects regardless of each project's risk, then the company is likely to reject some safe projects that it actually should accept and to accept some risky projects that it should reject.
• C) Because no flotation costs are required to obtain capital as reinvested earnings, the cost of reinvested earnings is generally lower than the after-tax cost of debt.
• D) Higher flotation costs tend to reduce the cost of equity capital.
• E) Since debt capital can cause a company to go bankrupt but equity capital cannot, debt is riskier than equity, and thus the after-tax cost of debt is always greater than the cost of equity.

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Definitions:

Discount Period

The time frame in which a payment can be made at a reduced rate, usually before a specified due date.

Invoice

A document issued by a seller to a buyer, indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller has provided the buyer.

Discount

The reduction from the full amount or value of something, often used as an incentive in sales.

Merchandise Inventory

Merchandise inventory is the total cost of all goods held by a company for the purpose of resale during a given period.