1. An asset used in a four-year project falls in the five-year MACRS class for tax purposes. The asset has an acquisition cost of $6,150,000 and will be sold for $1,350,000 at the end of the project. If the tax rate is 34 percent, what is the aftertax salvage value of the asset?
2. Explain in your own words the risk associated with OBS activities.
3. A loan of $39,999.85 is to be repaid by payments at the end of each quarter for eight years. Each payment is 2% higher than its predecessor. The loan is made at a nominal rate of discount of 4% payable quarterly. Find the balance just after the 20th payment, the amount of interest in the twentieth payment, and the amount of principal in the twentieth payment.