To finance some manufacturing tools it needs for the next 3
years, Waldrop Corporation is considering a leasing arrangement.
The tools will be obsolete and worthless after 3 years. The firm
will depreciate the cost of the tools on a straight-line basis over
their 3-year life. It can borrow $4,800,000, the purchase price, at
10% and buy the tools, or it can make 3 equal end-of-year lease
payments of $2,100,000 each and lease them. The loan obtained from
the bank...