you would read the topic theories of capital structure. Here‚ I have made these theories simplified. I hope‚ you can study these theories here and use these theories as reference. We all know that capital structure is combination of sources of funds in which we can include two main sources’ proportion. One is share capital and other is Debt. All four theories are just explaining the effect of changing the proportion of these sources on the overall cost of capital and total value of firm. If I have
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During the course of operations of any company‚ once the capital budgeting decisions have been made and proposals selected‚ the most important question before the finance manager is to arrange sufficient funds to finance them. Funds are also required to keep existing projects going on and the company can raise funds required for investment either by increasing the owners’ claims or the creditors’ claims or both. The claims of the owners increases when the company raises the funds by issuing equity
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Exercise on Unit 2 – Theories of Capital Structure 1. Companies U & L are identical in all respect except that U is unlevered while L is levered. Company L has Rs. 20 Lacs of 8% debentures outstanding. Assume a. All MM assumptions are met b. Tax rate is 35% c. EBIT is Rs. 6 Lacs d. Equity capitalization rate of company U is 10% Find the following: a. Value of each firm according to MM approach b. Suppose Value of U is Rs. 25 Lacs and Value of L Rs. 35 Lacs. According
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OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE The optimal capital structure for a company should be the mix of equity‚ debt and hybrid instruments that minimizes the overall cost of funding‚ i.e. it should minimize the company’s weighted average cost of capital. In practice‚ however‚ it is not possible to specify this optimal capital structure exactly‚ for any individual company. It clearly makes sense to obtain funds at the lowest possible cost. In the long run‚ debt is cheaper than equity. However‚ when a company’s
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OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE INTRODUCTION This report tries to visualize “OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE” and represent the facts that include features of capital structure‚ determinants of capital structure‚ and patterns of capital structure‚ types and theories of capital structure‚ theory of optimal capital structure‚ risk associated with capital structure‚ external assessment of capital structure and some assumption related to capital structure. BROAD OBJECTIVE • To determine features of capital structure
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Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors are Reliably Important? Murray Z. Frank1 and Vidhan K. Goyal2 First draft: March 14‚ 2003. Current draft: December 20‚ 2003. ABSTRACT This paper examines the relative importance of 38 factors in the leverage decisions of publicly traded U.S. firms from 1950 to 2000. The most reliable factors are median industry leverage (+ effect on leverage)‚ market-to-book ratio (-)‚ collateral (+)‚ bankruptcy risk as measured by Altman’s Z-Score (-)‚ dividend-paying
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of Diageo‚ the treasury team was given the task of establishing the cost of capital for each of the different areas the company operated. The team had to create a simulation model which should consider new finance approaches‚ treasury functions to focus on‚ what the firm’s risk footprints will be‚ how to calculate cost of capital and finally how to optimally structure capital. How has Diageo managed its capital structure? Both Grand Metropolitan and Guinness had little debt prior to the merger‚
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Assignment: Capital Structure PART A 1. Apple Corporation has 2.5 million shares outstanding with a market value of $2.00 each (expected return = 16%) and debt with a market value of $1‚ 000‚000 and a return of 10% Required a. What is the return on the capital of Apple Corporation? [Show all workings and formulae) [7.5 marks] 2. Samsung generates pre-tax earnings of $2‚000‚000 per year. Currently it has issued 1 million shares which sell for $10 each. Samsung has no debt in
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prudent and sustainable funding sources‚ to add to their current funding mix. This is leading to a renewed interest in structured asset-backed financing solutions‚ designed to give treasurers the opportunity to rebalance and re-engineer their capital structures by offering well-priced‚ longer maturity alternatives. By securing a funding solution on the assets already owned by the company‚ or assets that will be essential to the business‚ it is possible to rebalance pricing models in a company’s favour
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D61/81594/2012 AGENGA BENTER ARWA D61/81595/2012 Section 1 1. Determine the drivers of capital Structure. The primary factors that influence a company’s capital-structure decision are: Company size Big firms are likely to be more leveraged than small firms. This is due to the huge capital assets that they posses Management style Management style ranges from aggressive to conservative. Conservative management is less inclined to use
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