Calculate the company's WACC. Calculating the WACC Gnomes R Us is considering a new project. The company has a debt- equity ratio of .62. The company's cost of equity is 11.8 percent, and the aftertax cost of debt is 4.9 percent. The firm feels that the project is riskier than the company as a whole and that it should use an adjustment factor of +3 percent. What is the WACC it should use for the project