You are analyzing the potential acquisition of Nothing Better! Ice Creams, Inc. by your firm, Needsalift, Inc. The ice cream firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Grand Lake Investments, which has set a firm selling price of $10,000,000. From your work you estimate that Nothing Better! will generate the following incremental cash flows for Needsalift:
To fund the $10 million price, Needsalift can use $2 million from internal sources (retained earnings) with a required return of 15 percent, while the rest would come from a new debt issue yielding 10 percent. Needsalift's tax rate is 40 percent.
-What is the required return on the acquisition of Nothing Better! for Needsalift?

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You are analyzing the potential acquisition of Nothing Better! Ice Creams, Inc. by your firm, Needsalift, Inc. The ice cream firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Grand Lake Investments, which has set a firm selling price of $10,000,000. From your work you estimate that Nothing Better! will generate the following incremental cash flows for Needsalift:
  To fund the $10 million price, Needsalift can use $2 million from internal sources (retained earnings) with a required return of 15 percent, while the rest would come from a new debt issue yielding 10 percent. Needsalift's tax rate is 40 percent.
-What is the required return on the acquisition of Nothing Better! for Needsalift?

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The Answer is C

You Are Analyzing the Potential Acquisition of Nothing Better! Ice