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Company management is responsible for establishing a capital structure for the corporation that makes optimal use of financial leverage and holds the cost of capital as low as possible. [1] [2] Capital structure is an important issue in setting rates charged to customers by regulated utilities in the United States. The utility company has the ...
Capital management can broadly be divided into two classes: Working capital management regards the management of assets that are of capital value to the firm or business entity itself. Investment management on the other hand concerns assets that are alternative sources of revenue and normally exist outside of the main revenue model(s) of ...
It is also involved with long term strategic financial management, focused on i.a. capital structure management, including capital raising, capital budgeting (capital allocation between business units or products), and dividend policy; these latter, in large corporates, being more the domain of "corporate finance." Specific tasks:
BHCs possess adequate capital. The capital structure is stable given various stress-test scenarios. Planned capital distributions, such as dividends and share repurchases, are viable and acceptable in relation to regulatory minimum capital requirements. The assessment is performed on both qualitative and quantitative bases.
The trade-off theory of capital structure is the idea that a company chooses how much debt finance and how much equity finance to use by balancing the costs and benefits. The classical version of the hypothesis goes back to Kraus and Litzenberger [ 1 ] who considered a balance between the dead-weight costs of bankruptcy and the tax saving ...
Financial manager often uses the Theory of capital structure to determine the ratio between equity and debt which should be used in a financing round for a company. The basis of the theory is that debt capital used beyond the point of minimum weighted average cost of capital will cause devaluation and unnecessary leverage for the company.
Ke is the risk-adjusted, theoretical rate of return on a Company's invested excess capital obtained through external investments. Among other things, the value of Ke and the Cost of Debt (COD) [ 6 ] enables management to arbitrate different forms of short and long term financing for various types of expenditures.
Organizational capital is one of the three components of structural capital, itself a component of intellectual capital. [2] But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to measure it, or how to best quantify its contribution to output (either current or future). [3]