Contemporary Financial Management, Loose-leaf Version
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Author: R. Charles Moyer, James R. McGuigan, Ramesh P. Rao
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To discuss: The Person M’s research outcome in the area of capital structure.
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According to the person M’s research outcome the worth of a company is independent of its structure of capital in perfect capital markets condition with no income taxes. Though, when person M permit bankruptcy costs and income taxes to happen, they demonstrate a value-optimizing structure of capital that is fewer than 100 percentage of debt is reached.
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