Abe Forrester and three of his friends from college have interested a group of venture capitalists in backing their business idea.

Abe Forrester and three of his friends from college have interested a group of venture capitalists in backing their business idea. The proposed operation would consist of a series of retail outlets to distribute and service a full line of vacuum cleaners and accessories. These stores would be located in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. To finance the new venture two plans have been proposed:

•Plan A is an all-common-equity structure in which $2.2 million dollars would be raised by selling 86,000 shares of common stock.

•Plan B would involve issuing $1.3 million in long-term bonds with an effective interest rate of 11.8 percent plus another $ 0.9 million would be raised by selling 43,000 shares of common stock. The debt funds raised under Plan B have no fixed maturity date, in that this amount of financial leverage is considered a permanent part of the firm’s capital structure.

Abe and his partners plan to use a 40 percent tax rate in their analysis, and they have hired you on a consulting basis to do the following:

a. Find the EBIT indifference level associated with the two financing plans.

Please provide details on how you come with the final answer

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