Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3, Problem 11P
Your computer manufacturing firm must purchase 10,000 keyboards from a supplier. One supplier demands a payment of$100,000 today plus $10 per keyboard payable in one year. Another supplier will charge $21 per keyboard, also payable in one year. The risk-free interest rate is 6%.
- a. What is the difference in their offers in terms of dollars today? Which offer should your firm take?
- b. Suppose your firm does not want to spend cash today. How can it take the first offer and not spend $100,000 of its own cash today?
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