Engineering Economy 7th Edition by Leland Blank ,Anthony Tarquin

Exercise 23

Managers from different departments in Zenith Trading, a large multinational corporation, have offered six projects for consideration by the corporate office. A staff member for the chief financial officer used key words to identify the projects and then listed them in order of projected rate of return as shown below. If the company wants to grow rapidly through high leverage and uses only 10% equity fi nancing that has a cost of equity capital of 9% and 90% debt fi nancing with a cost of debt capital of 16%, which projects should the company undertake