You and your colleague, Maya, are currently participating in a finance internship program at Tucker Manufacturing. Your current assignment is to work together to review Tuckers current and projected income statements. You will also assess the consequences of managements capital structure and investment decisions on the firms future riskiness. After much discussion, you and Maya decide to calculate Tuckers degree of operating leverage (DOL), degree of financial leverage (DFL), and degree of combined leverage (DCL) based on this years data to gain insights into Tuckers risk levels.

The most recent income statement for Tucker Manufacturing follows. Tucker is funded solely with debt capital and common equity, and it has 3,000,000 shares of common stock currently outstanding.

	This Years Data	Next Years Projected Data
Sales	$40,000,000	$43,200,000
Less: Variable costs	20,000,000	21,600,000
Gross profit	20,000,000	21,600,000
Less: Fixed operating costs	8,000,000	8,000,000
Net operating income (EBIT)	12,000,000	13,600,000
Less: Interest expense	800,000	800,000
Taxable income (EBT)	11,200,000	12,800,000
Less: Tax expense (40%)	4,480,000	5,120,000
Net income	$6,720,000	$7,680,000
Earnings per share (EPS)	$2.24	$2.56

Given this information, complete the following table and then answer the questions that follow. When performing your computations, round your EPS value and the percentage change values to two decimal places.

Tucker Manufacturing Data
DOL (Sales = $40,000,000)	________?
DFL (EBIT = $12,000,000)	________?
DCL (Sales = $40,000,000)	________?

Everything else remaining constant, assume Tucker Manufacturing decides to immediately repay 50% of a bank loan prior to its maturity. How would this affect Tuckers DOL, DFL, and DCL?

	The DOL would be expected to _________? .
	The DFL would be expected to _________? .
	The DCL would be expected to _________? .