Chapter 13, Problem 5CQ

Summary Introduction

To determine: The determine cost of debt for a company, the difference debt is privately placed to being publicly traded and reasons on estimating cost of debt whose debt issues are privately held.

Introduction:

The cost of debt is the effective interest rate of cost which a business earns on their current debts. Debt involves in the formation of capital structure. As the debt is considered as a deduction expenditure, the cost of debt is usually determined as after-tax cost in order to formulate similar to the cost of equity.