Quantitative Problem 1: Findley Furniture Company must install $5.9 million of new equipment in one of its plants. It can obtain a bank loan for 100% of the required amount. Alternatively, management believes it can arrange a lease. Assume that the following facts apply: 1. The equipment falls in the MACRS 5-year class. The applicable MACRS rates are 20%, 32%, 19%, 12%, 11%, and 6%. 2. The lease includes maintenance, whereas if the equipment is purchased, it would require maintenance provided by a service contract for $120,000 per year, payable at the end of the year. 3. Findley's federal-plus-state tax rate is 35%. 4. If the money is borrowed, the bank loan will be at a rate of 10%, amortized in 5 equal installments to be paid at the end of each year. 5. The tentative lease terms call for end-of-year payments of $1.25 million per year for 5 years. 6. At the end of the lease term, the equipment will have an estimated salvage value of $950,000. At that time, Findley plans to replace the equipment regardless of whether the firm leases or purchases it. What is the firm's cost of owning the equipment? Enter your answer in thousands. For example, an answer of $1,234,000 should be entered as 1,234. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest thousand dollars. Enter your answer as a positive number. $ thousand

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Red Sun Rising Corporation has just signed a lease for its new manufacturing facility. The lease agreement calls for annual payments of $1,850,000 for 20 years with the first payment due today. If the interest rate is 3.55 percent, what is the value of this liability today?

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Auto Leasing Inc. leases an automobile with a fair value of $40,000 to a customer over a four year period with payments due annually. The first payment is due on the first day of the lease. What is the annual lease payment if Auto Leasing Inc. desires a rate of return of 10% ? Note: Do not use a negative sign with your answer. $ 0

Question: Yankee Construction agreed to lease payments of $762.79 on the construction equipment to be made at the end of each month for six years. Financing is at 15% compounded monthly. a) What is the value of the original lease contract? b) If, due to delays, the first eight payments were deferred, how much money would be needed after nine months to bring the lease payments up to date? c) How much money would be required to pay off the lease after nine months? d) If the lease were paid off after nine months, what would the total interest be? e) How much of the total interest would be due to deferring the first eight payments?