Inca Breweries of Peru. Inca Breweries of Lima, Peru, has received an order for 10,000 cartons of beer from Alicante Importers of Alicante, Spain.
The beer will be exported to Spain under the terms of a letter of credit issued by a Madrid bank of behalf of Alicante Importers. The letter of credit specifies that the face value of the shipment, $720,000 US dollars, will be paid 90 days after the Madrid bank accepts a draft drawn by Inca Breweries in accordance with the terms of the letter of credit.
The current discount rate on 3-month bankers's acceptance is 8% per annum, and Inca Brewereis estiamtes its weighted average cost of capital to be 20% per annum. The commission for selling a banker's acceptance in teh discount makret is 1.2% of the face amount.
How much cas wil Inca Breweries receive fromt eh sale if it holds th acceptance until maturity? Do you recommend that Inca Breweries hold the acceptance until maturity of discount it at onc eint eh US bankders acceptance market?