Capital Structure‚ Profitability and Market Structure: Evidence from Textile Industries in Bangladesh. Introduction In corporate finance‚ the academic contribution of Modigliani and Miller (1958‚ 1963) about capital structure irrelevance and the tax shield advantage paved the way for the development of alternative theories and a series of empirical research initiatives on capital structure. The alternative theories include the trade-off theory‚ the pecking order/asymmetric information theory
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The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: capital structure‚ valuation‚ and cost of capital Teaching Note Synopsis In June 2002‚ a managing director of an active-investor hedge fund was considering the possible gains from increasing the debt capitalization of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Wrigley had been conservatively financed and at the date of the case‚ carried no debt. The tasks for the student are to: Estimate the potential change in value from relevering Wrigley using adjusted present value analysis
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A company with low gearing is one that is mainly being funded or financed by share capital (equity) and reserves‚ whilst the one with a high gearing is mainly funded by loan capital. Now the question to address is which of the two (equity and debt) is cheaper to the company? The answer is that cost of debt is cheaper than cost of equity. This is because debt is less risky than equity and the tax advantage of debt over equity as discussed below: Risk: debt is less risky than equity because: • the
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Fin324 CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES A Case Study of All Systems Logistics‚ Inc. Phil Submitted by: Bijis‚ Dean Victor 3BM-A Submitted to: Ma. Grace M. Baysa Fin324 Teacher Abstract Firms need capital in order to run their respective businesses‚ do necessary investments and eventually‚ grow larger. These actions and decisions are combined with high costs where both internal and external financing might be appropriate. Capital structure is the
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Impacts of Profitability and Financial Leverage on Firm’s Capital Structure By [Your Name] [Instructor’s Name] [Institution’s Name] [Date] Declaration While conducting the proposed research work‚ I‚ being a hard-working‚ innovative and conscientious researcher‚ come up with the factual severity of consequences allied with an act of plagiarising content from others’ work. Moreover‚ I do comprehend the rules and regulations my university encompasses against submitting a plagiarised document
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Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important? Murray Z. Frank and Vidhan K. Goyal∗ This paper examines the relative importance of many factors in the capital structure decisions of publicly traded American firms from 1950 to 2003. The most reliable factors for explaining market leverage are: median industry leverage (+ effect on leverage)‚ market-to-book assets ratio (−)‚ tangibility (+)‚ profits (−)‚ log of assets (+)‚ and expected inflation (+). In addition‚ we find
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HOCHIMINH CITY --- oOo --- HUỲNH ANH KIỆT CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: CASE STUDY: LISTED COMPANIES IN HOCHIMINH STOCK EXCHANGE MASTER THESIS Ho Chi Minh City – 2010 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HOCHIMINH CITY --- oOo --- HUỲNH ANH KIỆT CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: CASE STUDY: LISTED COMPANIES IN HOCHIMINH STOCK EXCHANGE MAJOR: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MAJOR CODE: 60
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An organization’s structure influences the flow of information throughout the firm and determines who reports to whom. In some firms‚ decision-making powers are concentrated at the upper echelons of the organization‚ whereas in others‚ this role is distributed among various management levels in the organization. A lateral organization a structure embraces decentralization whereby various departments work together in order to achieve common organizational goals (Hall‚ 1972). For an organization to
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synthesised organisational design literature into five ideal organisational forms or configurations that do not exist in the real world‚ but provide consultants and managers a framework to understand and design organisational structures. Mintzberg defined organisational structure as " the sum total of the ways in which it divides its labour into distinct tasks and then achieves coordination among them ". Each configuration contains six components: characteristics 1. operating core : the people directly
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AND CAPITAL BUDGETING FOR THE LEVERED FIRM Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. APV is equal to the NPV of the project (i.e. the value of the project for an unlevered firm) plus the NPV of financing side effects. 2. The WACC is based on a target debt level while the APV is based on the amount of debt. 3. FTE uses levered cash flow and other methods use unlevered cash flow. 4. The WACC method does not explicitly include the interest cash flows‚ but it does implicitly
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