1. You are evaluating a project for your company. You estimate the sales price to be $630 per unit and sales volume to be 3,300 units in year 1; 4,300 units in year 2; and 2,800 units in year 3. The project has a three-year life. Variable costs amount to $430 per unit and fixed costs are $265,000 per year. The project requires an initial investment of $390,000 in assets which will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the three-year project life. The actual market value of these assets at the end of year 3 is expected to be $63,000. NWC requirements at the beginning of each year will be approximately 30 percent of the projected sales during the coming year. The tax rate is 35 percent and the required return on the project is 9 percent. What change in NWC occurs at the end of year 1?
$189,000
$122,850
$529,200
$343,980
2. JackITs has 6.1 million shares of common stock outstanding, 2.1 million shares of preferred stock outstanding, and 31.00 thousand bonds. If the common shares are selling for $29.20 per share, the preferred share are selling for $14.60 per share, and the bonds are selling for 97.89 percent of par, what would be the weight used for equity in the computation of JackIT's WACC?
74.49%
33.33%
74.11%
66.67%