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ICU Window, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt i

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Question

ICU Window, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with seven years to maturity that is quoted at 110 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost of 8.2 percent annually. Requirement 1: What is ICU's pretax cost of debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) Pretax cost of debt % Requirement 2: If the tax rate is 30 percent, what is the aftertax cost of debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) Aftertax cost of debt %

Explanation / Answer

Before tax cost of debt is

The pretax cost of debt is the YTM of the company