1. Which of the following would increase the likelihood that a company would increase its debt ratio in its capital structure? a. An increase in costs incurred when filing for bankruptcy. b. An increase in the corporate tax rate. c. An increase in the personal tax rate. d. None of the statements above is correct. ANSWER: B An increase in the corporate tax rate would mean that firms would get larger tax breaks for interest payments. Therefore‚ firms have an incentive to increase interest payments
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case study will focus on the proposed capital structure decisions of Diageo. 2) Is Diageo’s current capital structure appropriate to its new business? It believes that it has traditionally had a conservative debt policy. If so‚ is that policy still appropriate? Has Diageo’s capital structure been as conservative as it believes? (What interest rate coverage ratio has it been targeting? How does it look relative to its competitors?) Diageo’s capital structure has not been as conservative as it
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Solution 1: (i) P0 = D1 Ke - g CA – IPC TEST CAPITAL STRUCTURE = 3.50 (1.06) 0.15 – 0.06 = `41.22 (ii) Ke = D1 + g P0 0.15 = 3.50 (1 + g) + g 50 7.50 = 3.50 + 3.50g + 50g g= 4 = 7.48% 53.5 Solution 2: (i) Determination of EPS at EBIT level of `22‚00‚000 Financing Plan (a) (b) Equity Shares (`) Debentures (`) Pref. EBIT 22‚00‚000 22‚00‚000 Less: Interest (16‚000) (1‚21‚000) Taxable Income 21‚84‚000 20‚79‚000 Less: Tax @ 30% (6‚55‚200) (6‚23‚700) EAT 15‚28‚800 14‚55‚300 Less: Dividend on Pref
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Assignment 2: Business Financing and the Capital Structure Principles of Finance Finance 100 December 12‚ 2013 Business Financing and the Capital Structure Raising Business Capital As a financial advisor to this business there are two options to consider for raising business capital‚ equity financing and debt financing. The details‚ advantages‚ and disadvantages of both options will be provided. Also information about raising capital by selecting an investment banker
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duration and the frequency of the pathways to user conversions. In this paper‚ we propose an alternative data mining framework for analyzing user-level advertising data. In the aggregation step‚ we compress individual user histories into a graph structure‚ called the adgraph‚ representing local correlations between ad events. For the reporting step‚ we introduce several scoring rules‚ called the adfactors (AF)‚ that can capture global role of ads and ad paths in the adgraph‚ in particular‚ the structural
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Pfizer Inc.’S Cost of Capital and Capital structure - Xiaoyue Shi The costs of capital and capital structures for Pfizer Inc. and its two competitors Merck & Co. Inc. and Johnson & Johnson in the pharmaceutical industry are analyzed in this memo. When calculating the cost of common stock for the three companies‚ three different approaches including Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)‚ Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and the bond yield plus risk premium are applied (Appendix A). For CAPM approach
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Environmental Dynamism‚ Capital Structure and Performance: A Theoretical Integration and an Empirical Test Author(s): Roy L. Simerly and Mingfang Li Source: Strategic Management Journal‚ Vol. 21‚ No. 1 (Jan.‚ 2000)‚ pp. 31-49 Published by: John Wiley & Sons Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3094118 Accessed: 07/12/2009 10:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp.
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Beyond Beyond Fashion There is a trick of my writing teacher: When we finish reading an essay‚ first he asks: "What is it about?" We answer‚ then he asks:" If that’s not what the essay is about‚ then what is it about?" So we answer again‚ striving to squeeze out every drop of intelligence out of our brain cells. Repetitively‚ after we are willingly tortured by this same question for three more rounds‚ the essence of the essay shows up. This was exactly the same feeling I received from the exhibition
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FIN-03-06 A Dynamic Model of Optimal Capital Structure Sheridan Titman McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin e-mail: titman@mail.utexas.edu Sergey Tsyplakov Moore School of Business The University of South Carolina‚ Columbia‚ SC This paper also can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.com/abstract/332042 A Dynamic Model of Optimal Capital Structure∗ Sheridan Titman McCombs School of Business
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Capital structure decisions: To M&M and beyond Introduction Modigliani and Miller’s proposition one states that by introducing debt financing does not change the value of the firm or the value of the firm’s cash-‐flows but only the way that these cash-‐flows of the firm are split between its debt and
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