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Corporate Finance
Capital Structure
Javier Estrada Spring, 2014
- 1. Introduction
- Where are we going?
- 2. Tonka
- Implications
- Limitations
- 3. Polaroid
- Costs of financial distress
- Agency costs and covenants
- Implications
Javier Estrada IESE Business School Barcelona Spain MBA CorpFin Spring, 2014
Introduction
- What is this all about?
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- Finding the best (cheapest) way to finance the long‐
term projects of a company
- What financial instruments, and in what proportions,
minimize the company’s cost of capital?
- Optimal capital structure
xD and xE (or D/E) that minimize the WACC
- We will do this in two steps
- The positive side of debt
- The limitations of the set‐up
- The positive and negative sides of debt
- The process of finding an optimal capital structure
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