Colter Steel has $5,750,000 in assets. Temporary current assets Permanent current assets Fixed assets Total assets $ 3,500,000 1,625,000 625,000 $ 5,750,000 Assume the term structure of interest rates becomes inverted, with short-term rates going to 14 percent and long-term rates 6 percentage points lower than short-term rates. Earnings before interest and taxes are $1,210,000. The tax rate is 20 percent. If long-term financing is perfectly matched (synchronized) with long-term asset needs, and the same is true of short-term financing, what will earnings after taxes be? Earnings after taxes Dome Metals has credit sales of $198,000 yearly with credit terms of net 120 days, which is also the average collection period. Assume the firm adopts new credit terms of 4/10, net 120 and all customers pay on the last day of the discount period. Any reduction in accounts receivable will be used to reduce the firm's bank loan which costs 8 percent. The new credit terms will increase sales by 20% because the 4% discount will make the firm's price competitive. a. If Dome earns 25 percent on sales before discounts, what will be the net change in income if the new credit terms are adopted? (Use a 360-day year.) Net change in income b. Should the firm offer the discount? Yes