Chpt.16 Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Financial Leverage Chapter Outline Financial Leverage Effect of leverage Break-even Analysis Homemade Leverage M&M Propositions (I & II): optimal D/E? No tax Corporate tax Corporate tax & bankruptcy costs Corporate & personal taxes Arbitrage The Capital-Structure Question and The Pie Model The value of a firm is defined to be the sum of the value of the firm’s debt and the firm’s equity. V=E+B If the goal of the management of the firm is
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Capital Structure Capital Structure‚ Interest Rates and Credit Ratings Prepared by Ece SARAÇOĞLU BILGI‚ MSc in International Finance INF 503 - Financial Economics and Interest Rates December 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. III. a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) k) l) m) n) o) p) q) IV. V. Why Capital Structure Matters To Investments How Debt and Equity Financing Differ Choosing Between Debt and Equity Financing Process Ownership rights Rights over profit Ease of doing business Repayment Cost to company
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industry demand and price‚ along with rising fuel prices and an economic recession. These pressures now force Du Pont to source its financing through debt‚ foregoing its risk averse capital structure policy in the past. It now aims to determine the most feasible capital structure that will enable it to finance capital expenditures vital to its competitive advantage while maintaing its financial flexibility. Du Pont now faces two alternatives: 1) Reduce the debt/total capitalization ratio
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FORE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT CORPORATE FINANCE Capital Structure in TATA Motors Course: PGDM Capital Structure in TATA Motors Corporate Finance ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The preparation of this project report was a multi-staged process and each stage involved contributions from various individuals and resources. We are greatly thankful to Dr. Himanshu Joshi‚ Lecturer in Corporate Finance who gave us an opportunity to work on this project. We express our profound sense of gratitude and veneration to you
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dimensions were most relevant in this case? Why? The most important external environment dimension is the technological. News Corps is a media company which has to evolve and adapt with all technological evolutions. The second is the socio-cultural factor‚ nowadays media are essential‚ technologies are progressing really quickly. People have higher expectations about communication and entertainment so companies have to satisfy the customers and respond to his needs. There is also the demographic factor
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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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Mercy Corps Introduction At the fourth biennial Mercy Corps leadership conference in November 2006 executive leadership described the well-known‚ internal complications at Mercy Corps as a large organization ($194 million budget in 2006) that “has to focus on two core areas: international relief and development” (Grossman & King‚ 2008). The status of the organization was examined in detail by the Harvard Business School case study and a number of problems were revealed. This analysis is based
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Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 1 Capital Structure and Firm Performance in the Financial Sector: Evidence from Australia Vedran Skopljak School of Economics and Finance‚ La Trobe University Kingsbury Drive‚ Bundoora‚ Vic 3086‚ Australia Tel: 61-3-9479-1111 E-mail: vedran.skopljak@latrobe.edu.au Robin H. Luo (Corresponding author) Department of Finance‚ Wuhan University Luojia Hill‚ Wuhan 430072‚ China Tel: 86-27-6875-2740 E-mail: robin.h.luo@gmail.com
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30017 Corporate Finance Hannes Wagner The included PDF files are examples of case study write-ups made by students of the 30017 Corporate Finance course in 2012-2013. The underlying case was “Hutchison Whampoa Limited: The Capital Structure Decision”. The write-ups were evaluated as “excellent” and the students have agreed for their work to be distributed. All rights to their work remain with them. The instructions that students received were the following: “Your assignment is to provide a written
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com/story/money/business/2012/10/19/mcdonalds-3q-results/1643577/. Yahoo Finance (2012b). McDonald’s Corp. (MCD). Retrieved from http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MCD+Balance+Sheet&annual Yahoo Finance (2012a). Wendy’s Company. Retrieved from http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=WEN+Income+Statement&annual Stock Analysis (2012)‚ McDonald’s Corp (MCD). Retrieved from http://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/McDonalds-Corp/Valuation/Ratios#PE
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