The goodsmith charitable foundation, which is tax-exempt, issued debt last year at 8 percent to finance a new playground facility in los angeles. this year the cost of debt is 20% higher; that is, firms that paid 10 percent for debt last year will be paying 12 percent this year.

a. if the goodsmith foundation borrowed money this year, what would the after tax cost of debt be, based on its cost last year and the 20% increase?
b. if the receipts of the foundation were found to be taxable by the irs (at a rate of 35% because of the involvement in political activities), what would the aftertax cost of the debt be?

Heating & cooling installs and services commercial heating and cooling systems. elklandelkland uses job costing to calculate the cost of its jobs. overhead is allocated to each job based on the number of direct labor hours spent on that job. at the beginning of the current year, elklandelkland estimated that its overhead for the coming year would be $ 61 comma 500$61,500. it also anticipated using 4 comma 1004,100 direct labor hours for the year.

After the 2008 recession, the amount of reserves in the us banking system increased. because of federal reserve actions, required reserves increased from $44 billion to $60 billion. however, banks started holding more reserves than required. by january 2009, banks were holding $900 billion in excess reserves. the federal reserve started paying interest on the excess reserves that the banks held. what possible impact will these unused reserves have on the economy?

What is the relationship between the national response framework and the national incident management system (nims)? a. the national response framework replaces the nims, which is now obsolete. b. the response protocols and structures described in the national response framework align with the nims, and all nims components support response. c. the nims relates to local, state, and territorial operations, whereas the nrf relates strictly to federal operations. d. the nims and the national response framework cover different aspects of incident management—the nims is focused on tactical planning, and the national response framework is focused on coordination.