to more stores which increased COGS, depreciation, personnel expenses, and interest expenses. Growth in Long-Term Debt: HD growth up until 1984 was funded primarily from existing store operations, with a significant source of liquidity since sales are on a cash-and-carry basis. The company has supplemented its operations cash flow with bank credit, equity and debt financing. During fiscal 1985, HD negotiated a $200M revolving credit facility with a group of banks to provide continued expansion
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2. Growth stage from FY1978 onwards where the firm started generating positive OI The financing for the startup phase was performed predominantly through common stock as expected, followed by debt financing. During this stage, MCI had grossly under-estimated its cash requirements to support its build-out strategy which had led to the technical default. This had forced the firm to raise equity financing in an emergency mode, allowing it to survive. During the growth stage (triggered by the success
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Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction………………………………………… 4 2.0 Background………………………………………… 5 3.0 Capital Structure…………………………………… 6 3.1 Debt to equity……………………………… 6 3.2 Long term debt to equity…………………... 7 3.3 Total debt to capital………………………… 7 3.4 Long term debt to capital…………………... 8 3.5 Balance sheet structure AZN………………. 9 3.6 Balance sheet structure BAT………………. 10 3.7 Discussion…………………………………. 10-11 4.0 Cost of capital………………………………………
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new hearing aid. They could fund this additional cost by raising extra capital, or use internal cash instead (which could slow go-to-market time and dangerously deplete cash reserves). Burns and Irvine were fortune to have two alternatives for financing. The first
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Choices in Financing There are only two ways in which a business can make money. • The first is debt. The essence of debt is that you promise to make fixed payments in the future (interest payments and repaying principal). If you fail to make those payments, you lose control of your business. • The other is equity. With equity, you do get whatever cash flows are left over after you have made debt payments. Aswath Damodaran! 4! Global Patterns in Financing… Aswath
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Current assets = Total assets – Inventory – Accounts receivable – Cash = $5,000,000 – $1,200,000 – $800,000 – $400,000 = $2,600,000 Short-term debt Liabilities = .60 × total assets = .60 × $5,000,000 = $3,000,000 = Liabilities – Accounts payable = $3,000,000 – $560,000 = $2,440,000 = .10 × $2,440,000 = $244,000 = Financial debt – Short-term debt = $2,440,000 – $244,000 = $2,196,000 = Total assets – Liabilities = $5,000,000 – $3,000,000 = $2,000,000
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structure instigated with the seminal paper of Modigliani and Miller [1]. In brief, the MM theory states that the market value of a firm is determined by its earning power and the risk of its underlying assets, and is independent from its corporate financing decisions. In fact, the MM theory provided conditions under which a firm’s financial decisions do not affect the value of the firm. The fundamental conditions under which a firm’s leverage becomes irrelevant to its market value, hence the MM proposition
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involved in the budget approval process, and the operating strategy has very important part to keep the costs under control. For the financial risk, the more debt financed the higher financial risk it is. The company's risk avoidance strategy is manifested in its financing decision. The company is managed in preference for equity finance and against debt finance, investments are funded internally. The optimal capital structure for Hill Country The optimal capital structure is the capital structure at
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Financing and investment are two major decision areas in a firm. In the financing decision the manager is concerned with determining the best financing mix or capital structure for his firm. Capital structure could have two effects. First, firms of the same risk class could possibly have higher cost of capital with higher leverage. Second, capital structure may affect the valuation of the firm, with more leveraged firms, being riskier, being valued lower than less leveraged firms. If we consider
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refers to the proportion of debt and equity being used to finance a firm’s assets: Assets = Debt + Equity Capital Structure - In this lesson we will examine the notion that capital structure affects the value of the firm. That is, the value of the firm might change with the amount of debt that is present. - This would occur because the cost of financing with debt (AtRd) is normally lower than the cost of financing with equity (Rs), which means the WACC
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