(EBIT-EPS analysis) Abe Forrester and three of his friends from college have interested a group of venture capitalists in backing their business idea. The proposed operation would consist of a series of retail outlets to distribute and service a full line of vacuum cleaners and accessories. These stores would be located in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. To finance the new venture two plans have been proprosed:

Plan A is all common-equity- structure in which 2.4 million dollars would be raised by selling 82,000 shares of common stock.

Plan B would involve issuing $1.4 million dollars in long term bonds with an effective interest rate of 11.7% plus $1.0 million would be raised by selling 41,000 shares of common stock. The debt funds raised under Plan B have no fixed maturity date, in that this amount of financial leverage is considered a permanent part of the firms capital structure

Abe and his partners plan to use 40% tax rate in their analysis, and they have hired you on a consulting basis to do the following:

a. Find the EBIT indifference level associated with the two financing plans. b. Prepare a pro forma income statement for the EBIT level solved for in Part a that shows that EPS will be the same regardless whether Plan A or B is chosen. a. The EBIT indifference level associated with the two financial plans is $__? (Round to the nearest dollar)

b. Prepare a pro forma income statement for the EBIT level solved for in Part a that shows that EPS will be the same regardless whether Plan A or B is chosen.