A firm is all equity with 5,000 shares outstanding worth $7 each. They are planning on issuing $10,000 of new perpetual debt at the 8% market rate of interest. The effective tax rate is 25%. What is the change in equity value if they make the debt for equity exchange?

Aaron corporation, which has only one product, has provided the following data concerning its most recent month of operations: selling price $ 102 units in beginning inventory 0 units produced 4,900 units sold 4,260 units in ending inventory 640 variable costs per unit: direct materials $ 20 direct labor $ 41 variable manufacturing overhead $ 5 variable selling and administrative expense $ 4 fixed costs: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 64,200 fixed selling and administrative expense $ 2,900 the total contribution margin for the month under variable costing is: