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Explain the expected effects of these actions on the consolidated capital structure 



1. WACC. An MNC has total assets of $100 million and debt of $20 million. The firm- before-tax cost of debt is 12 percent, and its cost of financing with equity is 15 percent. The MNC has a corporate tax rate of 40 percent. What is this firm- weighted average cost of capital?
2.	Financing Decision. Forest Company produces goods in the U.S., Germany, and Australia, and sells the goods in the areas where they are produced. Foreign earnings are periodically remitted to the U.S. parent. As the euro- interest rates have declined to a very low level, Forest Company has decided to finance its German operations with borrowed funds in place of the parent- equity investment. Forest will transfer the U.S. parent- equity investment in the German subsidiary over to its Australian subsidiary. These funds will be used to pay off a floating-rate loan, as Australian interest rates have been high and are rising. Explain the expected effects of these actions on the consolidated capital structure and cost of capital of Forest Company.
	
Given the strategy to be used by Forest, explain how its exposure to exchange rate risk may have changed.




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