9. Keegan, a new credit manager for the Nutrium company, told you that when Nutrium makes a credit decision, it always uses the customer's operating cycle as an upper limit for the credit period. Keegan wonders if it might be a better idea to base these decisions on the customer's inventory period instead. How would you respond?

10. A web services company needs new equipment - recent loss of service issues have caused some key customers to switch to other providers.The cost of the equipment is $16,500,000.It is estimated that the firm will save $4,300,000 annually (after tax) for the next 5 years by installing the equipment. The firm is financed with 35% debt and 65% equity, based on market values.The firm's cost of equity is 9% and its after-tax cost of debt is 4.5%.The flotation costs of debt and equity are 3% and 5%, respectively.Assume the firm's tax rate is 30%.

a. What is the firm's WAGE? h. Ignoring flotation oosls and using yuur' answer from part {a} as the discount rate, what is the NW of the proposed project? c. What is the weighted average flotation post,r f, for the firm? d. What is the dollar flotation cost of the proposed financing? e. After considering flotation ooslsp what is the NW of the proposed project