Determinants of capital structure In finance‚ capital structure refers to the way a corporation finances its assets through some combination of equity‚ debt‚ or hybrid securities. A firm ’s capital structure is then the composition or ’structure ’ of its liabilities. Simply‚ capital structure refers to the mix of debt and equity used by a firm in financing its assets. The capital structure decision is one of the most important decisions made by financial management. The capital structure decision is at the
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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 debts to increase profits while an aggressive
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Theory of Capital Structure - A Review Stein Frydenberg£ April 29‚ 2004 ABSTRACT This paper is a review of the central theoretical literature. The most important arguments for what could determine capital structure is the pecking order theory and the static trade off theory. These two theories are reviewed‚ but neither of them provides a complete description of the situation and why some firms prefer equity and others debt under different circumstances. The paper is ended by a summary where the
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there that make $50 million dollar mistakes. “How ABC Was Used in Capital Budgeting” examines how one Fortune 500 company almost made what could have been an extremely devastating $50 million dollar mistake by carrying out a “cybermall” project based on favorable business case forecast results. Luckily‚ upper management was willing to allow their Chief Financial Officer to conduct further analysis before making this investment decision. This article examines an industry leader that‚ in the 1990s
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Notes: Capital Structure by Kyung Hwan Shim University of New South Wales Australian School of Business School of Banking & Finance for FINS 1613 S1 2011 May 14‚ 2011 ∗ These notes are preliminary and under development. They are made available for FINS 1613 S1 2011 students only and may not be distributed or used without the author’s written consent. ∗ 1 Contents 1 Introduction 2 Financial Leverage 3 M&M Proposition I: Capital Structure Irrelevance 4 M&M Proposition II: Capital Structure
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- A Capital Budgeting Method. (The evaluation of two mutually exclusive projects with varying lives requires careful examination of the existence of the reinvestment opportunities at the end of the different economic lives of the projects. The current article deals with a method that may be adopted in situations wherein the level of investments‚ the life of the projects and cash inflows (or outflows) are unequal.) Risk is inherent in almost every business decisions. Capital budgeting being
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for Managing for Value came from the highest levels 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
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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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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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Capital Structure Theories Capital Structure Capital Structure is the proportion of debt‚ preference and equity capitals in the total financing of the firm’s assets. The main objective of financial management is to maximize the value of the equity shares of the firm. Given this objective‚ the firm has to choose that financing mix/capital structure that results in maximizing the wealth of the equity shareholders. Such a capital structure is called as the optimum capital structure. At the optimum
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