Instruction: Complete ALL questions. You are an investment manager at Securities Investment PLC and you are advising the management of Microprocessors Limited, a manufacturer of microchips, on its capital structure. The following information is available to you to assist your assessment. The firm: i. has issued 10% preferred share which sold for $100 per share par value. The cost of issuing and selling the stock was $2 per share. ii. has common share with a market price of $25 per share and an expected dividend of $2 per share at the end of the coming year. Growth rate in dividends has been 5%. iii. can borrow funds by selling $1000 par value 10% coupon interest rate, 10 -year debt. To sell securities, an average discount of $30 per bond is given. Assume that the tax rate is 35%. iv. has the following capital structure which it considers optimal: A. Determine the: B. The firm has a beta of 1.4. The market retum equals 12% and the risk-free rate of retum is 7\%. Determine the firm's cost of common equity using CAPM approach. (3 marks) C. Explain why cost of capital is measured on the after-tax basis. (3 marks) D. Why is using a weighted average cost of capital recommended rather than the cost of specific funds to determine a firm's cost of funds? (2 marks)