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Exercise 6-18 Assume that Sonic Foundry Corporation has a contractual debt outst

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Question

Exercise 6-18 Assume that Sonic Foundry Corporation has a contractual debt outstanding. Sonic has available two means of settlement. It can either make immediate payment of $2,173,000, or it can make annual payments of $265,400 for 15 years, each payment due on the last day of the year Click here to view factor tables which method of payment do you recommend, assuming an expected effective interest rate of 9% during the future period? (Round factor values to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.25124 and final answer to O decimal places, e.g. 458,581.) Present Value of annual payments Recommended payment method V Click if you would like to Showl Payments on: Open Show Work Immediate Payment

Explanation / Answer

Answer

Year

PV of $1 at 9% [1/1.09Year]

1

0.917431193

2

0.841679993

3

0.77218348

4

0.708425211

5

0.649931386

6

0.596267327

7

0.547034245

8

0.50186628

9

0.46042778

10

0.422410807

11

0.38753285

12

0.355534725

13

0.326178647

14

0.299246465

15

0.274538041

Total

8.06069

Present Value of annual Payments

[$265,400 x 8.06069]

$           21,39,307

Value of $ to be paid now under 1st alternative

$           21,73,000

Recommended Payment method

Annual Payments, because the present value of future payments is less than present value of immediate payments

Year

PV of $1 at 9% [1/1.09Year]

1

0.917431193

2

0.841679993

3

0.77218348

4

0.708425211

5

0.649931386

6

0.596267327

7

0.547034245

8

0.50186628

9

0.46042778

10

0.422410807

11

0.38753285

12

0.355534725

13

0.326178647

14

0.299246465

15

0.274538041

Total

8.06069