You are employed by CGT, a Fortune 500 firm that is a major producer of chemicals and plastics including plastic grocery bags, styrofoam cups, and fertilizers. You are on the corporate staff as an assistant to the CFO. This is a position with high visibility and the opportunity for rapid advancement, providing you make the right decisions. Your boss has asked you to estimate the weighted average cost of capital for the company. The balance sheet and some other information about COT follows below. 533.000.000 101.000.000 $139,000.00 Assets Current assets Net plant, property, and equipment Total assets Liabilities and equity Accounts payable Accruals Cument liabilities Long term debe Total liabilities Common stock Retained earnings Total shareholders equity Total liabilities and shareholders equity 510,000,000 9.000.000 519,000,000 40.399.00 59.000.000 30,000,000 50.000.000 50,000,000 $139.000.000 You check The Wall Street Journal and see that CGT stock is currently selling for $4.50 per share and that CGT bonds are selling for $875.00 per bond. The bonds have a $1,000 par value. a 5.25% annual coupon rate, semiannual payments are not callable, issued on October 1, 2015 and will expire on October 1, 2035. The book value per share is $3. The yield on a 6-month Treasury bill is 1.50%. CGT is in the 30% tax bracket. The annual rate of return for CGG and stock market are given in the below table. Year GTT stock market 2010 0.0586 0.055600000 2011 0.224 0.061052632 2012 -0.2707 0.079365079 2013 0.006 0.182904412 2014 -0.0684 0.170940171 2015 0.3387 0.142003981 2016 -0.0928 -0.0470656600 1. Estimate the GGT's after-tax cost of debt. 2. Estimate the GGT's cost of external equity. 3. Estimate the GGT's cost of capital. 4. Can you assume that the cost of capital would remain constant with using more debt? Please Explain. 5. GGT's marketing director suggests that it is incorrect to use the same discount rate each year for the investment in packaging as the early stages of the investment are more risky, and should be discount at a higher rate. Another board member disagrees saying that more distant cash flows are riskier and should be discounted at a higher rare. Discuss the validity of the views of each of the directors