Shanken Corp. issued a 30-year, 5.9 percent semiannual bond three years ago. The bond currently sells for

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Shanken Corp. issued a 30-year, 5.9 percent semiannual bond three years ago. The bond currently sells for 106 percent of its face value. The company’s tax rate is 22 percent. 

a. What is the pretax cost of debt? 

b. What is the aftertax cost of debt? 

c. Which is more relevant, the pretax or the aftertax cost of debt? Why?

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Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-1259918940

12th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford Jordan

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