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Corporate Finance, 5th Edition
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Corporate Finance, 5th Edition

by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann Le Fur, Antonio Salvi
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1024 pages
32h 22m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 12 Financing

Tell me how you’re financed and I’ll tell you who you are

When you evaluate how a company is financed, you must perform both dynamic and static analyses.

  • As we saw in the previous chapter, when it is founded, a company makes two types of investment. Firstly, it invests to acquire land, buildings, equipment, etc. Secondly, it makes operating investments, specifically start-up costs and building up working capital.

If the circle is a virtuous one, i.e. if the cash flows generated are enough to meet interest and dividend payments and repay debt, the company will gradually be able to grow and, as it repays its debt, it will be able to borrow more (the origin of the illusion that companies never repay their loans).

Conversely, the circle becomes a vicious one if the company’s resources are constantly tied up in new investments or if cash flow from operating activities is chronically low. The company systematically needs to borrow to finance capital expenditure, and it may never be able to pay off its debt, not to mention pay dividends.

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