Answer:
A budget deficit
Explanation:
A budget deficit arises when the governments spend more than it has collected. The government 's main source of revenue is taxes and levies it imposes on businesses and individuals. Its expenses include salaries for public employees, social welfare, and expenditures on public goods and infrastructure development projects.
A budget deficit contrasts a budget surplus, which occurs when a government intends to spend less than it has collected. Budget deficits result in government borrowing from either the domestic or foreign markets. A balanced budget is when the collected revenues match the planned expenditures.
Answer:
B) 9.1%
Explanation:
Cost of debt is the interest rate paid by a company due to borrowing money; i.e debt from investors.
$185million in debt is the face value of debt that Westford Corporation had and the $26 million dollars of interest expense is the cost of the debt in dollars;
First, find pretax cost of debt ;
Pretax cost of debt = (Interest expense / Face value of debt )*100
= (26,000,000/ 185,000,000 )*100
=0.1405 *100
= 14.05%
Next, use pretax cost of debt to find after-tax cost of debt;
After-tax cost of debt = Pretax cost of debt (1-tax)
= 14.05% *(1-0.35)
= 9.13%
Therefore, Westford's cost of debt capital is 9.1%
The gross margin ratio is a percentage resulting from dividing the amount of a company's gross profit by the amount of its net sales. In this case it would be 118,350/466,300 = 25.38%
