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Chapter 13, Problem 18QAP
Summary Introduction
Adequate information:
Project cost
Flotation costs
Equity flotation cost
Debt flotation cost
To compute: Debt-equity ratio for the company M.
Introduction: The Debt-equity ratio refers to the evaluation of the proportion of business capital financed with equity capital and debt.
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