Your company has sales of $ 100 comma 000 this year and cost of goods sold of $ 72 comma 000. you forecast sales to increase to $ 110 comma 000 next year. using the percent of sales method, forecast next year's cost of goods sold. the tax cuts and jobs act of 2017 temporarily allows 100% bonus depreciation (effectively expensing capital expenditures). however, we will still include depreciation forecasting in this chapter and in these problems in anticipation of the return of standard depreciation practices during your career.

The east asiatic company (eac), a danish company with subsidiaries throughout asia, has been funding its bangkok subsidiary primarily with u.s. dollar debt because of the cost and availability of dollar capital as opposed to thai baht-denominated (b) debt. the treasurer of eac-thailand is considering a 1-year bank loan for $247,000.the current spot rate is b32.03 /$, and the dollar-based interest is 6.78% for the 1-year period. 1-year loans are 12.04% in baht.a. assuming expected inflation rates of 4.3 % and 1.24% in thailand and the united states, respectively, for the coming year, according to purchase power parity, what would the effective cost of funds be in thai baht terms? b. if eac's foreign exchange advisers believe strongly that the thai government wants to push the value of the baht down against the dollar by5% over the coming year (to promote its export competitiveness in dollar markets), what might the effective cost of funds end up being in baht terms? c. if eac could borrow thai baht at 13% per annum, would this be cheaper than either part (a) or part (b) above?