6. XYZ Corporation has a deferred compensation plan under which it allows certain employees to...

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6. XYZ Corporation has a deferred compensation plan under which it allows certain employees to defer up to 40 percent of their salary for five years. For purposes of this problem, ignore payroll taxes in your computations. PV Table (Round your PV factors to 5 decimal places. Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

PV Table

Year

4%

5%

6%

7%

8%

9%

10%

11%

12%

1

.962

.952

.943

.935

.926

.917

.909

.901

.893

2

.925

.907

.890

.873

.857

.842

.826

.812

.797

3

.889

.864

.840

.816

.794

.772

.751

.731

.712

4

.855

.823

.792

.763

.735

.708

.683

.659

.636

5

.822

.784

.747

.713

.681

.650

.621

.593

.567

6

.790

.746

.705

.666

.630

.596

.564

.535

.507

7

.760

.711

.665

.623

.583

.547

.513

.482

.452

8

.731

.677

.627

.582

.540

.502

.467

.434

.404

9

.703

.645

.592

.544

.500

.460

.424

.391

.361

10

.676

.614

.558

.508

.463

.422

.386

.352

.322

11

.650

.585

.527

.475

.429

.388

.350

.317

.287

12

.625

.557

.497

.444

.397

.356

.319

.286

.257

13

.601

.530

.469

.415

.368

.326

.290

.258

.229

14

.577

.505

.442

.388

.340

.299

.263

.232

.205

15

.555

.481

.417

.362

.315

.275

.239

.209

.183

b. Assume Julie, an XYZ employee, has the option of participating in XYZs deferred compensation plan. Julies marginal tax rate is 40 percent and she expects the rate to remain constant over the next five years. Julie is trying to decide how much deferred compensation she will need to receive from XYZ in five years to make her indifferent between receiving the current salary of $10,000 and receiving the deferred compensation payment. If Julie takes the salary, she will invest it in a taxable corporate bond paying interest at 5 percent annually (after taxes). What amount of deferred compensation would accomplish this objective?

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