Google Capital Structure Analysis
UNIT 5: FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNMENT (Complete)
CAPITAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS -
GOOGLE, INC.
Submitted to
GB550: Financial Management
Prof. Dale Prondzinski
Prepared by
Jason Kang
MBA Candidate | Class of 2012i iiiiii
Graduate School of Business | Kaplan University Online I fiii iand Management| GB540i fi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Apr 6, 2012
Jason’s Portfolio Note on April 16, 2012:
The course project involved developing a great depth of knowledge in analyzing capital structure, theories behind it, and its risks and issues. Before I began this assignment, I knew nothing but a few things about capital structure from previous unit weeks; however, it was not until this course’s final project that came along with opening doors for me to developing a real understanding of why capital structure is important, what to expect from it, and how to evaluate in determining value of a firm. For the first time, various financial statements were closely examined and retrieved via online including Google, MSN, and Yahoo and an extensive amount of research were referred to in order to ensure quality in the project and report any findings that may be relevant to this research. One of the most stimulating part about this assignment was that we were allowed to select a firm of our interest and it was not until this project that I’ve came to suddenly realize there is plentiful amount of information available to enrich us to knowing more about how and why the values are placed about in a firm which convinced me enough to feel that this was the main reason why I selected this assignment to be included for my program portfolio.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
i. Table of Contents
ii. Abstract 1
1. Introduction: GOOGLE, INC. 2
1.1 Capital Structure 2
1.2 Key words 3
2. Capital Structure of Google 3
2.1 Preview of Capital Structure Issues 4
2.2 Capital Structure Risks
CAPITAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS -
GOOGLE, INC.
Submitted to
GB550: Financial Management
Prof. Dale Prondzinski
Prepared by
Jason Kang
MBA Candidate | Class of 2012i iiiiii
Graduate School of Business | Kaplan University Online I fiii iand Management| GB540i fi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Apr 6, 2012
Jason’s Portfolio Note on April 16, 2012:
The course project involved developing a great depth of knowledge in analyzing capital structure, theories behind it, and its risks and issues. Before I began this assignment, I knew nothing but a few things about capital structure from previous unit weeks; however, it was not until this course’s final project that came along with opening doors for me to developing a real understanding of why capital structure is important, what to expect from it, and how to evaluate in determining value of a firm. For the first time, various financial statements were closely examined and retrieved via online including Google, MSN, and Yahoo and an extensive amount of research were referred to in order to ensure quality in the project and report any findings that may be relevant to this research. One of the most stimulating part about this assignment was that we were allowed to select a firm of our interest and it was not until this project that I’ve came to suddenly realize there is plentiful amount of information available to enrich us to knowing more about how and why the values are placed about in a firm which convinced me enough to feel that this was the main reason why I selected this assignment to be included for my program portfolio.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
i. Table of Contents
ii. Abstract 1
1. Introduction: GOOGLE, INC. 2
1.1 Capital Structure 2
1.2 Key words 3
2. Capital Structure of Google 3
2.1 Preview of Capital Structure Issues 4
2.2 Capital Structure Risks
References: Capital Structure. (n. d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved on March 24, 2012 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_structure Google, Inc Hackbarth, D. (2008). Managerial Traits and Capital Structure Decisions. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 43(4). Schmidt, H