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Imprudential, Inc., has an unfunded pension liability of $752 million that must

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Imprudential, Inc., has an unfunded pension liability of $752 million that must be paid in 20 years. To assess the value of the firm?s stock, financial analysts want to discount this liability back to the present. Required: If the relevant discount rate is 10 percent, what is the present value of this liability? (Enter rounded answer as directed, but do not use rounded numbers in intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars (e.g., 1,234,567). Round your answer to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) Present value $

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PV of unfunded pension liability is $111,780,008.27 as calculated below

Statement showing PV of Unfunded pension Liability Particulars Time PV Amount PV Unfunded Pension Liability 20 0.148644    752,000,000.00    111,780,008.27 PV of Unfunded pension Liability    111,780,008.27                     0.91 1.1                     0.83 1.1                     0.75 1.1                     0.68 1.1 0.620921323 1.1 56.45% 1.1 0.513158118 1.1 0.46650738 1.1 0.424097618 1.1 0.385543289 1.1 0.350493899 1.1 0.318630818 1.1 0.28966438 1.1 0.263331254 1.1 0.239392049 1.1 0.217629136 1.1 0.197844669 1.1 0.17985879 1.1 0.163507991 1.1 0.148643628