NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISIONS OF NEW FIRMS Alicia M. Robb David T. Robinson Working Paper 16272 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16272 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 August 2010 The authors are grateful to the Kauffman Foundation for generous financial support. Malcolm Baker‚ Thomas Hellmann‚ Antoinette Schoar‚ Ivo Welch‚ and seminar participants at the Kauffman/Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank Entrepreneurial Finance
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CHAPTER 16 FINANCIAL LEVERAGE AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE POLICY Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. Business risk is the equity risk arising from the nature of the firm’s operating activity‚ and is directly related to the systematic risk of the firm’s assets. Financial risk is the equity risk that is due entirely to the firm’s chosen capital structure. As financial leverage‚ or the use of debt financing‚ increases‚ so does financial risk and‚ hence‚ the overall
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report outlines the analysis of two low-cost airlines performance in Europe‚ namely easyJet PLC and Ryanair Hldgs during their financial year between 2006 and 2008. It examines the companies’ portfolio‚ future prospects and competitors to analyse the threats and opportunities facing their business. In conclusion‚ there is a recommendation whether to invest on easyJet and/or Ryanair’s shares. II.FINANCIAL AND NON-FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSISIn terms of the completed financial analysis‚ there are several
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INTRODUCTION 1.0 CHAPTER OVERVIEW Capital plays an important role in business. Every business enterprise‚ whether big‚ medium or small‚ manufacturing‚ services or industrial‚ needs capital to carry on its operations smoothly and to achieve its targets organization’s objective. Capital Structure means how an organization or company manage their capital or obtain financial resources to manage their business well. Business adopts different types of capital structures in order to meet the internal needs
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Major Considerations in Capital Structure Planning There are three major considerations in capital structure planning‚ i.e. risk‚ cost of capital and control‚ which help the finance manager in determining the proportion in which he can raise funds from various sources. Although‚ three factors‚ i.e. risk‚ cost and control determines the capital structure of a particular business undertaking at a given point of time. The finance manager attempts to design the Capital Structure in such a manner that
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are listed for trading on one of the two major exchanges namely National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) during the period 2004-2008 (I refer each year henceforth with the end year i.e.‚ for 2004-2005 to 2005) are employed for analysis. The data has been sourced from Prowess database of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). For the purpose of this study‚only final dividend and interim dividend. Unlike the firms in developed countries that pay quarterly dividends‚ Indian
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Business Financing and the Capital Structure Business Financing and the Capital Structure Pamela D. Forbes Strayer University Dr. John Karaffa December 01‚ 2013 Business Financing and the Capital Structure Data gathering‚ planning‚ preparing‚ presenting‚ implementing and the on-going monitoring
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following report will aim to identify and categorise risks to easyJet as a company. By identifying risks to the company we are able to see what risks the company have and potentially how to avoid or deal with them. Then by classifying them in groups it may be possible to tackle a few risks with one solution. After listing the risks and putting them in a risk matrix‚ the report will then aim to explain how the risk will affect easyJet and justify the position of it in the risk map. The way the report
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Dissertation AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON IMPACT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON CAPITAL STRUCTURE (A report submitted towards the partial fulfillment of the requirement of the two years full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management.) DECLARATION I‚ student of Post Graduate Diploma in Management from hereby declare that I have completed dissertation on “IMPACT OF DIVIDEND POLICY ON CAPITAL STRUCTURE ” a part of the course requirement. I further declare that the information presented in this project
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SOLVENCY AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE Debt to total assets ratio Debts to total assets | 2011 | 2010 | Walt Disney Co. October* | 0.48 | 0.46 | Time Warner Inc. December* | 0.56 | 0.51 | Industry Average | 0.36 | 0.33 | The Debt to Total ratio measures the amount of debt a business has in proportion to assets and is also an indicator of financial leverage and shows the percentage of total assets that were financed by creditors‚ liabilities‚ debt. The debt to total assets ratio
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