Which of the following statements is true? a. High liquidity means a company is short on cash and may be unable to pay its debts. b. When a company decides to go public through an IPO, it is typically targeting to sell its shares to only a handful of shareholders.  c. If the company has a higher than expected extremely high profit this year, equity holders will benefit more than debt holders as debt holders are the residual claimers for the cash flows of the company. d. In the extreme case, the debt holders take legal ownership of the firm's assets through a process called bankruptcy. e. Equity holders expect to

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Which of the following statements is true?

a. High liquidity means a company is short on cash and may be unable to pay its debts.
b. When a company decides to go public through an IPO, it is typically targeting to sell its shares to only a handful of shareholders. 
c. If the company has a higher than expected extremely high profit this year, equity holders will benefit more than debt holders as debt
holders are the residual claimers for the cash flows of the company.
d. In the extreme case, the debt holders take legal ownership of the firm's assets through a process called bankruptcy.
e. Equity holders expect to receive dividends and the firm is always legally obligated to pay them.

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