Estimate cost of debt for a company of your choice using all four methods: annualized yield-to-maturity, credit rating approach, synthetic credit rating approach, and book interest. If you can not apply all four methods due to lack of information, please indicate that in your submission.

For data on Canadian companies corporate debt, you can use The Globe and Mail, National Post or www.morningstar.com. For the U.S. firms, try www.morningstar.com or yahoo!finance.

On The Globe and Mail website - www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/ - choose Bonds in the upper menu, then Corporate bonds. On The National Post website - http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html - choose Investing, Markets, Market Data, scroll to Bonds, and choose Canadian.

If company you chose is incorporated in the United States, go to - http://finance.yahoo.com/bonds,and choose Bond Screener - for data on U.S. issuers.

Show all details of your calculations. You may round up number of periods over which the bond is outstanding to the nearest integer. For example, if your companys bond matures in December 20, 2023, you can value it as if it has n=20 semi-annual periods left outstanding.

Estimate cost of debt for your company based on default spreads provided at http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ in Ratings, Spreads and Interest Coverage Ratios file. For risk-free rate, use yield on Government of Canada 10-year bonds or the US Treasuries 10-year yield.

Please do not forget to indicate which company you chose.