A review of capital structure theories 1.0 Introduction One of the most contentious financial issues that have provoked intense academic research during the last decades is the theory of capital structure. Capital structure can be defined as a ’Mix of different securities issued by a firm’ (Brealey and Myers‚ 2003). Simply speaking‚ capital structure mainly contains two elements‚ debt and equity. In 1958‚ through combining tax and debt factors in a simple model to price the value of a company‚
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Introduction The context of this paper is to investigate the relationship between capital structure and firm performance on Malaysia plantations industries. According to Brealey and Myers (1988)‚ the capital structure will determine the survival of a business. Damodaran (2001) defined capital structure as the mix of debt and equity used to finance the operation of firms. Capital structure is closed link with corporate performance (Tian and Zeitun‚ 2007). Corporate performance can be measured by
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Capital structure describes how a corporation has organized its capital—how it obtains the financial resources with which it operates its business. Businesses adopt various capital structures to meet both internal needs for capital and external requirements for returns on shareholders investments. As shown on its balance sheet‚ a company’s capitalization is constructed from three basic blocks: Long-term debt. By standard accounting definition‚ long-term debt includes obligations that are not
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financial risks is the debt to total capitalization ratio. This ratio measures the portion of a company’s total capital structure that is financed by debts. The ratio is calculated as: According to the balance sheet dated May 31‚ 2014‚ Nike had a total debt of $1.373 billion‚ and total shareholders’ equity of $10.824 billion. Computing these numbers gives a debt to total capital ratio of 11.26%. The balance sheet of Nike shows that there is no preferred stock offered by the company but
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117 Capital Market - Clearing and Settlement IS M R Capital Market - Clearing and Settlement Introduction The transactions in secondary market pass through three distinct phases‚ viz.‚ trading‚ clearing and settlement. While the stock exchanges provide the platform for trading‚ the clearing corporation determines the funds and securities obligations of the trading members and ensures that the trade is settled through exchange of obligations. The clearing banks and the depositories provide
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What long-term investments should the firm undertake (capital budgeting) and how will investment and finance decisions affect the firm ’s value (valuation)? How can cash be raised for the required investments? This is known as the financing decision ’ (cost of capital‚ capital structure and leasing). How will the firm manage its day-to-day cash and financial affairs (short-term financing and net working capital)? The Capital Budgeting Mini Case presents a financial decision of acquiring
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Capital Structure 7 July 2013 Introduction The capital structure for a company can be very important for the success of the company. Many aspects of the business must be evaluated in order to determine the appropriate capital structure. Throughout this paper‚ three companies will be evaluated. The three companies being evaluated are eBay (NasdaqGS: EBAY)‚ The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX)‚ and Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK). Company Overview eBay is a very popular company
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Capital Structure and Debt Structure* Joshua D. Rauh Kellogg School of Management and NBER Amir Sufi University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER February 2010 *We thank Doug Diamond‚ Anil Kashyap‚ Gordon Phillips‚ Michael Roberts‚ Toni Whited‚ Luigi Zingales‚ and seminar participants at Emory University‚ Georgetown University‚ Maastricht University‚ Rice University‚ Tilburg University‚ the University of California-Berkeley‚ the University of Chicago‚ the University of Colorado
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The electronic private automatic branch exchange (EPABX) is equipment that has made day-to-day working in the offices much simpler‚ especially in the area of communication. The EPABX may be defined as a switching system that makes available both internal and external stitching functions of any organisation. The selection of an EPBAX is a difficult task and requires deep knowledge of traffic pattern of the office. By using an EPABX both the internal and external needs of the organisation are
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- 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction Capital structure concept holds a major place in a financial management. Capital structure refers the proportion of debt and equity capital .A perfect balance between debt and equity is required to ensure tradeoff between risk and return. Thus‚ optimal capital structure means the capital structure having reasonable of proportion of debt and equity. An optimal financial structure makes better use of society’s fund of capital resource ‚and thus it increase the total
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