Colter Steel has $5,000,000 in assets.       Temporary current assets $ 2,000,000 Permanent current assets   1,550,000 Fixed assets   1,450,000 Total assets $ 5,000,000     Assume the term structure of interest rates becomes inverted, with short-term rates going to 11 percent and long-term rates 3 percentage points lower than short-term rates. Earnings before interest and taxes are $1,060,000. The tax rate is 20 percent.      If long-term financing is perfectly matched (synchronized) with long-term asset needs, and the same is true of short-term financing, what will earnings after taxes be?

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Colter Steel has $5,000,000 in assets.

     
Temporary current assets $ 2,000,000
Permanent current assets   1,550,000
Fixed assets   1,450,000
Total assets $ 5,000,000
 

 

Assume the term structure of interest rates becomes inverted, with short-term rates going to 11 percent and long-term rates 3 percentage points lower than short-term rates. Earnings before interest and taxes are $1,060,000. The tax rate is 20 percent.  
  

If long-term financing is perfectly matched (synchronized) with long-term asset needs, and the same is true of short-term financing, what will earnings after taxes be?

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