(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 proposed: - Plan A is an all-common-equity structure in which $2.4 million dollars would be raised by selling 88,000 shares of common stock.

-Plan B would involve issuing $1.2 million in long-term bonds with an effective interest rate of 12.4 percent plus another $ 1.2 million would be raised by selling 44,000 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 firm's capital structure.

Abe and his partners plan to use a 38 percent 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 financing plans is $_____. (Round to the nearest dollar.)

b.Complete the segment of the income statement for Plan A. (Round income statement amounts to the nearest dollar except the EPS to the nearest cent.)

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