(Calculating the cost of short-term financing)You plan to borrow 30,000

from the bank to pay for inventories for a gift shop you have just opened. The bank offers to lend you the money at 12percent annual interest for the 3 months the funds will be needed (assume a 360-day year).

a.Calculate the annualized rate of interest on the loan.

b.In addition, the bank requires you to maintain a 15

percent compensating balance in the bank. Because you are just opening your business, you do not have a demand deposit account at the bank that can be used to meet thecompensating-balance requirement. This means that you will have to put 15

percent of the loan amount (which you had planned to use to help finance the business) in a checking account. What is the cost of the loan now?

c. In addition to the compensating-balance requirement in part

you are told that interest will be discounted. What is the annualized rate of interest on the loan now?