Consider a 25/75 debt/equity financing case for your firm. Your firm will produce a before-tax return of $280, the investment costs $200, the tax rate is 30%, the overall opportunity cost of capital (in other taxable projects) is 12%, and when the firmis 25% debt-financed, debtmust offer an expected rate of return of 8%. (If you think of your opportunity cost of capital as the best your firm can achieve elsewhere, then these cost-of-capital numbers are your before-tax costs of capital from other projects before they would be taxed, too. If you think of your opportunity cost of capital as provided by your investors, who [like you] are also taxed, then it is the rate of return before their personal income taxes.

The cost of capital for your personal investors is the subject of the next chapter.) First compute the WACC, then compute the debt as 25% of theWACC value, and show how the APV yields the same result.