scholarly journals The impact of financing policy on the cost of debt

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Tetiana Konieva

The cost of debt is a key element to define the amount of the regular interest payments of a company and its business value. It is used for indicators that warn of the economic crisis, which is relevant for the countries where most companies are financially dependent on liabilities. The formalized criteria for the types of financing policy, improved procedure for the cost of debt calculation make it possible to reveal policy with the capital structure that minimizes the cost of debt.The study is based on Ukrainian food processing companies for the period 2013–2020. The studied database was distributed by the types of financing policies: 22% of the cases have a conservative policy, 15% – moderate, 26% – aggressive, 37% – super-aggressive. The results show that the highest weighted cost of debt (24.1%) belongs to the conservative policy, which replaces negative equity by the expensive long-term debts, as well as super-aggressive policy (20.8%) with trade payable that is near half of the capital, and long days payable outstanding. A company can reduce the cost of debt relying on non-interest-bearing liabilities and trade payable if its days payable outstanding are kept at the industrial level or below. Moderate and conservative financing policies, which are based on equity and avoid debts, provide the lowest weighted cost of debt: 2.1% and 1.2%.Thus, choosing the desired type of financing policy for the company, it is possible to form a capital structure that will reduce the cost of debt.

Risks ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delphine Boursicot ◽  
Geneviève Gauthier ◽  
Farhad Pourkalbassi

Contingent Convertible (CoCo) is a hybrid debt issued by banks with a specific feature forcing its conversion to equity in the event of the bank’s financial distress. CoCo carries two major risks: the risk of default, which threatens any type of debt instrument, plus the exclusive risk of mandatory conversion. In this paper, we propose a model to value CoCo debt instruments as a function of the debt ratio. Although the CoCo is a more expensive instrument than traditional debt, its presence in the capital structure lowers the cost of ordinary debt and reduces the total cost of debt. For preliminary equity holders, the presence of CoCo in the bank’s capital structure increases the shareholder’s aggregate value.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeer Al Abbadi

The study aimed to define the factors that determinate the capital structure for industrial companies in Jordan. By depending on theoretical references and literature review that related to capital structure, and to define the determinants that influenced the capital structure by depending on statistical analysis. The study used 15 companies of Amman stock exchange for the period 2014-2016. The study concluded multiple results. The most importantly, there is significant impact of profitability, interest rates, and the amount of tangible assets. And there is impact of investment opportunities, the size of company and to the adoption of conservative policy according to the comprehensive concept of indebtedness in building capital structure. There was no possible impact for financial distress. The study proposed recommendations. The most important recommendations are studying the underlying causes of reduction long term debt ratio to the total assets of many public share holding companies. Urging financial managers to study the capital structure and the factors that determinate it, in order to manage the capital structure of the companies according to scientific methodology. Urging companies to use Islamic instruments for funding the tangible assets .As it is appropriate to the prevailing economic conditions in the market in terms of profit rates. It is necessary to confirm the existence of a credit rating classification from international credit agencies that helps in issuance of instruments and corporate bonds, or to obtain credit. Urging companies using rent ending in ownership or finance leasing; and urging companies of tangible assets to obtain funding from Islamic and commercial banks especially, when the cost of borrowing and Islamic funding is less than the cost of the issuance of shares. The study suggested studying the determinate factors that makes some companies following the conservative policy in building the capital structure, and in maintaining high cash balances. The study affected the impact of the existence of financial organizations as board of directors in public shareholding companies determine and study the factors of building the capital structure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-159
Author(s):  
Rezza Vitriya

Multinational firms are firm that do business internationally, the higher degree of multinationality of a firm, they have more ability to get greater funding because there are more chances to get funding from foreign country. Because of that condition, multinational firms have different cost of capital with domestic firms. The main purpose of this study is to understand the impact of degree of multinationality, capital structure, firm size, profitability and growth opportunity to cost of capital. Panel data is used on this research and multiple linear regression analysis is used as analytical model. The result suggest that Indonesia multinational firms have lower cost of capital, cost of equity, and cost of debt than Indonesia domestic firms. The study found that capital structure is negatively related to cost of capital, this means that Indonesia multinational firm use more debt than Indonesia domestic firms, and so lower the cost of debt after tax and hence the cost of capital.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-496
Author(s):  
Hongling Guo ◽  
Keping Wu

PurposeThis study aims to investigate how opening high-speed railways affects the cost of debt financing based on China's background.Design/methodology/approachUsing panel data on Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2017, this study constructs a quasi-natural experiment and adopts a difference-in-difference model with multiple time periods to empirically examine the relation between the high-speed railway openings and debt financing cost.FindingsOur results show that opening high-speed railways reduces the cost of debt financing, and this negative correlation is more significant in non-state firms, firms with weaker internal control, and firms that hire non-Big Four auditors. Besides, we explore the impact mechanisms and find that opening high-speed railways improves analyst attention, institutional investor participation, and information disclosure quality, which in turn lowers the cost of debt financing.Research limitations/implicationsThe results imply that the opening of high-speed railways helps to alleviate the information asymmetry and adverse selection between firms and creditors and ultimately reduces the cost of corporate debt financing.Practical implicationsThis paper can inform firms and stakeholders about the impact of opening high-speed railways on debt financing cost: it improves the information environment, reduces the geographical location restrictions of debt financing, ensures the reasonable pricing of corporate debt, and thus promotes the healthy and sound development of the debt market.Originality/valueThis paper provides theoretical support and empirical evidence for the impact of infrastructure construction on the information environment of the debt market in China, which enriches the research on the “high-speed railway economy.” In addition, as an exogenous event, the opening of high-speed railways instantly shortens the time distance between firms and external stakeholders, which gives us a natural environment to conduct empirical research, thus providing a new perspective for financial research on firms' geographical location.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maziar Ghasemi ◽  
Nazrul Hisyam Ab Razak

<p class="Content">For many years, liquidity of a company’s asset and its effect on the optimal debt level has been a controversial issue among scholars in finance studies. Prior studies have demonstrated that in some countries, asset liquidity increased debt level while in other countries liquid companies were less leveraged and more regularly financed by their own capital. This study investigates the effect of liquidity on the capital structure among the 300 listed companies in the Main market of Bursa Malaysia from 2005 to 2013 fiscal years. Pooled OLS is applied to investigate the impact of liquidity ratios on different Debt ratios. Liquidity of a company, which is the independent variable of this study, is measured by two common ratios which are: quick ratio and current ratio. Additionally, the Debt/Equity and Debt/Asset ratios represent the capital structures based on the short-term, long-term and total debt. The results show that all the measures of liquidity have significant impacts on all the proxies of leverage. According to the results, Quick ratio has a positive effect on leverage; although, Current ratio is negatively related to leverage. Moreover, short-term debt is more influenced by liquidity compared to long-term debt.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ranosz

AbstractThis article focuses on the analysis of the structure and cost of capital in mining companies. Proper selection of appropriate levels of equity and debt capital funding of investment has a significant impact on its value. Thus, to maximize the value of the company, the capital structure of the company should be composed to minimize the weighted average cost of capital. T he objective of the article is to present the capital structure of selected Polish and world’s mining companies and estimate their cost of equity and debt capital. In the paper the optimal capital structure for the Polish mining company (KGHM SA) was also estimated. It was assumed that both Polish and world’s mining companies, have no debt exceeding 45% in the financing structure. For the most of analyzed cases, the level of financing with debt capital is in the range between 10% and 35%. T he cost of equity exceeds the cost of debt capital and is in the range between 8% and 20%, while the cost of debt capital reaches the range between 1.9% and 12%. T he analysis of the optimal capital structure determining, performed for the selected mining company, showed that debt capital funding for the company should be in the range between 5.7% and 7.4%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Anna Wrycol
Keyword(s):  
The Cost ◽  

The article is an attempt to depict the procedures and regulations accompanying the policy of dividends in a company with a particular emphasis which is put on Enea S.A. The purpose of the empirical part is to analyze and assess the effectiveness of applying discounted dividends model to calculate the cost of equity for the company. It juxtaposes advantages and impediments in using the model, as well as infers if Gordon model is adequate in estimating the cost of equity for the presented company.


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