Stanley Inc. must purchase $6,000,000 worth of service equipment and is weighing the merits of leasing the equipment or purchasi
ng. The company has a zero tax rate due to tax loss carry-forwards, and is considering a 5-year, bank loan to finance the equipment. The loan has an interest rate of 10% and would be amortized over 5 years, with 5 end-of-year payments. Stanley can also lease the equipment for 5 end-of-year payments of $1,790,000 each. How much larger or smaller is the bank loan payment than the lease payment? (Hint: remember back to our bond pricing concepts and calculate the payment of the bond vs. the lease payment; loan payment - lease payment )
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Credit terms of 2/10, n/30 means there is a discount of 2% is available on payment of due amount within discount period of 10 days after sale with net credit period of 30 days.
Purchase = $7,500
As payment is made within discount period, so the discount will be availed.
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Break-even sales is a point in which a business or a firm neither make profit nor loss. Total Revenue equals total cost. Break-even sales help to know the point at which business starts to make profit.
Break-even sales is:
Fixed cost/contribution margin.
Where contribution margin is sales price per unit minus variable cost per unit.
In the question, variable cost are decreased by $3.
So the new variable cost is $21 - $3
=$18.
Contribution margin is $24 -$18
$6
Therefore, The break-even sales (units) if the variable costs are decreased by $3 is:
