Content preview from Fundamentals of Financial Management, Third Edition
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What is financial leverage?
- Mixing fixed-cost capital with equity is known as financial leverage.
- A firm may have either all-equity/unleveraged capital structure or a leveraged capital structure meaning a combination of debt and equity.
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What is irrelevance approach to capital structure?
- Irrelevance approach, propounded by Modigliani and Miller, suggests that in a perfect capital market with no taxes, introduction of debt in the capital structure does not change either value of the firm or the cost of capital.
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Does the irrelevance approach exist in presence of taxes?
- Modigliani and Miller feel that in presence of taxes, financial leverage lowers the cost of capital.
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Does financial leverage influence EPS and cost ...
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