October 2013
Beginner
608 pages
30h 22m
English
book
Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition
by Ronald W. Melicher, Edgar A. Norton
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CHAPTER 18
Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital
Chapter Learning Objectives:
AFTER STUDYING THIS CHAPTER, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE FOLLOWING:
- Explain how capital structure affects a firm's capital budgeting discount rate.
- Explain how a firm can determine its cost of debt financing and cost of equity financing.
- Explain how a firm can estimate its cost of capital.
- Explain how a firm's growth potential, dividend policy, and capital structure are related.
- Explain how EBIT/eps analysis can assist management in choosing a capital structure.
- Describe how a firm's business risk and operating leverage may affect its capital structure.
- Describe how a firm's degree of financial leverage and degree of combined leverage can be computed and explain how to interpret their values.
- Describe the factors that affect a firm's capital structure.
Where We Have Been...
We have seen how a firm can choose a short-term or long-term financing strategy (Chapter 16) and familiarize itself with the workings of the financial markets, security pricing, and IPOs (Chapters 10 and 11). Part of the financing decision depends on the firm's asset needs. New asset purchases, restructurings, or corporate strategies ...
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