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INTRODUCTION
Ø A firm wishes to maximize the profits may opt to pay no dividend and to
reinvest the retained earnings whereas a firm that wishes to maximize the
shareholders wealth may pay regular dividend.
Ø The dividend decisions is almost regular decision in the sense that it is taken
whenever the firm wants to distribute interim dividend, final dividend or bonus to
shareholders.
Ø Shareholders interest put on high priority and public interest get last priority.
LEVERAGES
Sales revenue
OPERATING LEVERAGE
Ø For every increase or decrease in sales level, there will be more than
proportionate increase or decrease in the level of EBIT. This is due to the
existence of FIXED COST.
Ø If no fixed cost then increase or decrease in EBIT was direct and proportion to
increase or decrease in sales level. OL=1
Ø If fixed cost> variable cost= greater would be the DOL (Degree of operating
leverage)
Ø DOL/OL= Contribution/EBIT
FINANCIAL LEVERAGE
Ø Higher the level of fixed financial charge higher would be the financial leverage.
COMBINED LEVERAGE
CAPITAL STRUCTURE
Ø Those who believe such a capital structure exists are supporters of Traditional
approach.
Ø Those who believe capital structure does not exists are supporters of M&M
approach.
Ø The value of the firm depends upon the earnings of the firms and the earnings
of the firms depends upon the investment decisions of the firm.
Ø It states that relationship between leverage, value of the firm and overall cost
of capital of the firm.
Ø Suggested by Durand
Ø It states a relationship between leverage, cost of capital and value of the firm.
Ø It states that value of the firm increases by increasing more debt proportion or
leverage & overall cost of capital will decrease.
Ø More & more debt or leverage> increase value of the firm> decrease overall
cost of capital of the firm (WACC)
Ø Assumptions are cost of debt Kd and cost of equity Ke are constant. Kd=Ke=k
Ø Use of more and more debt financing in the capital structure does not affect the
risks perception of the investors.
Ø Approach suggests that higher the degree of leverage, better it is as the value of
the firm would be higher. A firm can increase its value just by increasing the debt
proportion in capital structure.
Ø Value of the firm= value of equity+ value of debt
Ø Opposite to NI approach.
Ø Market value of the firm depends on the operating profit or EBIT and overall
cost of capital (WACC)
Ø Financing mix or capital structure is irrelevant and does not affect the value of
the firm.
Ø Assumptions are cost of debt and overall cost of capital are constant. Kd= Ko=K
Ø As the debt proportion or the financial leverage increases the risk of the
shareholders also increases and the cost of equity Ke also increases so value of
the firm remain the same.
3) TRADITIONAL APPROACH
Ø It takes a mid- way between the NI approach (value of the firm increase by
increasing debt) and NOI approach (value of the firm remain the constant)
Ø As per this a firm should make a judicious use of both debt & equity to achieve
acapital structure which may be called the optimal capital structure.
Ø It states that value of the firm increases with increase in financial leverage but
up to a certain limit only. Beyond this limit the increase in financial leverage will
increase its WACC and value of the firm will decline.
Ø Assumptions are cost of debt Kd and cost of equity Ke is constant, Kd=Ke=K
Ø The use of the leverage beyond a point will have the effect of increase in the
overall cost of capital of firm& thus result in decrease in the value of the firm.
Ø Financial leverage does not matter and cost of capital & value of the firm is
independent.
Ø Restate NOI approach & added it to the behaviourial justification for their
model.
Ø Assumptions are market are perfect, securities are infinitely divisible, investors
are rational, no tax, personal leverage and corporate leverage are perfect
substitute.
Ø It argues that if two firms are alike in all respects except that they differ in
respect of their financing pattern and their market value, then the investors will
develop a tendency to sell the shares of the over -valued firm and to buy the
shares of the under- valued firm. Buying and selling pressures will continue till the
two firms have same market value.
Ø Dividend refers to that portion of profit (after tax) which is distributed among
the owners/shareholders of the firm.
Ø The dividend policy has been a controversial issue among the financial
managers and often referred to as dividend puzzle.
Ø Dividend policy affect on the market value of share & value of the firm.
Ø If r>ke (growth firm) the firm should have zero payout and reinvest the entire
profits to earn more than investors.
Ø If r<ke (normal firm) firm should have 100% payout ratio and let the
shareholders reinvest their dividend income to earn higher return.
Ø If r= ke (normal firm) the return to firm from reinvesting the retained earnings
will be just equal to the earnings available to the shareholders on their
investment of dividend income.
Ø In short cut when r>ke, zero payout ratio and 100% retention, when r<ke 100%
payout and zero retention i.e P=D/Ke + (r/ke) (E-D)/Ke
Ø Assumptions are 1) growth rate of firm ‘g’= product of retention ratio ‘b’ and
rate of return ‘r’ so , g=br 2) cost of capital ke >g (growth)
Ø Direct relationship between dividend policy and market value of the share.
Ø Bird in hand argument of this model suggest that the dividend policy is relevant
as the investors prefer current dividend as against future uncertain capital gain.
Ø P= E(1-b)/ke-br
Ø They argued that the market price of a share is affected by the earnings of the
firm and is not influenced by the pattern of income distribution.
Ø They showed the arbitrage process to show that division of profit between
dividend & retained earnings.
Ø A firm will finance these either by ploughing back profits or if pays dividends
then will raise an equal amount of new share capitalexternally by selling new
shares.
Ø Po=1/(1+ke)*(D1+P1)
Ø P=m(D+E)/3
COST OF CAPITAL
Ø The minimum required rate of return that the corporation must earn in order to
satisfy the overall rate of return required by its investors is called corporations
cost of capital.
Ø Discount rates has been denoted as cutoff rate, minimum required rate of
return, rate of interest, target rate. This discount rate is known as cost of capital.
1) In capital budgeting it is used to discount the future cash flows to obtain their
present values.
Ø Cost of capital is the minimum required rate of return, a project must in order
to cover the cost of raisings funds being used by the firm in financing of the
proposal.
Ø Discount rate has been denoted as cut off rate, minimum required rate of
return, rate of interest, target rate these all discount rate is known as cost of
capital.
Ø Except retained earnings all other source of funds have explicit cost of funds.
EQUITY
CAPITAL BUDGETING
Ø It denotes a decisions situation where the lump sum funds are invested in the
initial stages of a projects and the returns are expected over a long period.
Ø The situation where the firm is not able to finance all the profitable investment
opportunities is known as capital rationing.
Ø The capital rationing implies that the firm is unable or unwilling to procure the
additional funds needed to undertake all the capital budgeting proposals before
it.
Ø Any decisions that requires the use of resources is a capital budgeting decisions.
Ø Original or initial cash outflows- the initial cash outflows is needed to get
project operational. In most of the capital budgeting proposals, the initial cost of
the project i.e the initial investment cost is the cash flow occurring in the initial
stages of the projects. Since the investment cost occurs in the beginning of the
project. It reflects the cash spent to acquire the asset.
Ø Sunk cost- It is that cost which the firm has already incurred and thus has no
effect on the present or future decisions.
Ø Opportunity cost- the next best foregone cost.
Ø Subsequent Inflows & outflows- original investment cost or the initial cash
outflow of the proposal is expected to generate a series of cash inflows in the
form of cash profits contributed by the projects. Cash inflows mat vary or same in
year annually, half yearly, biannually. Cash inflows generated during the life of the
project is called operating cash flows.
Ø All these cash inflows& outflows are to be considered for the capital budgeting
decisions.
Ø Terminal cash inflows- The cash inflows for the last year will also include the
terminal cash inflow.
PAY-BACK PERIOD
Ø Basic elements are the net investment, operating cash flows, economic life.
Ø Pay-back period is the number of years required for the proposals cumulative
cash inflows to be equal to its cash outflows.
Ø Pay-back period is the length of time required to recover the initial cost of the
project.
Ø Payback period is useful in liquidity problems, small firm, recover initial amount.
Ø When equal profit then, annual profit (after tax)/average investment in the
project*100.
Ø When unequal profit then, average annual profit (after tax)/average investment
in the project*100
Ø If the ARR is more than the pre-specified rate of return then project is likely to
be accepted.
Ø The project with the highest ARR will have the top priority
Ø The sum of the present values of all the cash inflows less than the sum of
present values of all the cash outflows associated with a proposal.
Ø NPV may be defined as the sum of the present values of cash inflows less than
the initial investment.
Ø In case of ranking of mutually exclusive proposals, the proposal with the highest
positive NPV is given the top priority and the proposals with the lowest positive
NPV is assigned the lowest priority.
3) The NPV calculations allow for the expected change in the discount rate.
4) The central goal of the capital budgeting is to find out the proposals whose
inflows have greater values than outflows. The NPV as a technique of evaluation
of capital budgeting proposals helps a finance manager in achieving this objective.
Ø When NPV is positive there is a potential for returns in excess of the minimum
required return.
Ø When NPV is negative the minimum return and the capital recovery both
cannot be achieved
Ø When NPV is close to or approximately zero the minimum required return is
just met.
Ø Value of the firm= total NPV of existing projects+ total NPV of the proposals.
PROFITABLITY INDEX
Ø It is defined as the benefits (in present value) per rupees invested in the
proposal.
Ø It is based upon the basic concept of discounting the future cash flows and is
ascertained by comparing the present value of the future cash inflows with
present value of future cash outflows.
Ø PI=1, then the firm may be indifferent because the present value of inflows is
expected to be just equal to the present value of outflows.
Ø PI>1 for that project which has positive NPV – Acceptable project.
Ø PI= 1 , NPV= 0
Ø PI is also known as –
TERMINAL VALUE
Ø The terminal value technique is based on the assumption that all future cash
inflows are reinvested elsewhere at the then prevailing rate of interest until the
end of the economic life of the project.
Ø Accept the proposal if the present value of the total compounded value of all
the cash inflows is greater than the present value of the cash outflows.
Ø In this method the cash flow of the project are discounted to find their present
values.
Ø It is the discount rate which produces a zero NPV i.e the IRR is the discount rate
which will equate the present value of cash inflows with the present value of cash
outflows. (Inflows= outflows)
Ø The rate of discount so calculated which equates the present value of future
cash inflows with the present value of outflows is known as IRR.
Ø IRR is also known as
4) Yield on Investment
Ø Working capital management is defined as the excess of current assets over the
current liabilities.
Ø Current assets are cash & bank balance, inventories, sundry debtors, bills
receivables and short term investment.
Ø As we must say working capital refers to current assets which may be defined as
those which are convertible into cash or equivalents within a period of one year
or those which are required to meet day to day operations.
Ø Fixed assets affects the long term profitability of the firm while the current
assets affect the short term liquidity position.
1) Gross working capital (GWC)- The gross working capital refers to the firm
investment in all the current assets taken together. The total of investment in all
the individual current assets is the gross working capital.
2) Net working capital (NWC)- The term net working capital may be defined as
the excess of total current assets over total current liabilities. Current liabilities
refer to those liabilities which are payable within one year.
Ø If the total current assets are more than total current liabilities then the
difference is known as positive net working capital.
Ø If total current liabilities exceeds the total current assets the difference is
known as negative net working capital.
Ø Lengthier the operating cycle more would be the need of working capital.
Ø Operating cycle- The time gap between acquisitions of resources and collection
of cash from customers. It is a time gap between the happening of the first event
and the happening of the last event.
Ø The permanent working capital once decided and arranged may not require
regular attention or management as such. But care must be taken of the
temporary working capital. The firm must be able to arrange additional working
capital immediately whenever need arises. The temporary working capital is
needed to meet the temporary liquidity requirements only.
Ø Sources of funds are long term sources, short term sources and transactions
sources.
Ø Permanent working capital is also known as fixed assets and long term sources
Ø Temporary working capital is known as current assets and short term sources.
Ø There are different approaches to take this decisions relating to financing mix of
the working capital are as follows-
Ø Cash conversion period- It is the length of time between the firm actual cash
expenditure and its own cash receipt. The cash conversion cycle is the average
length of time a rupee is tied up in current assets.
Ø Several models have been for optimum cash balance are as follows-
1) Baumol’s model- According to this model a company will sell securities and
realizes cash and this cash is used to make payments. As the cash comes down
and reaches a point the finance manager replenish its cash balance by selling
marketable securities available with it and the pattern continues. Each time the
firm transacts in this way, it bears a transactions costs so it will like to transact as
occasionally as possibly. This could be done by maintaining a higher level involving
a high holding cost. Thus the firm has to deal with the holding cost as well as
transaction cost.
2) Baumol’s cut off model- The total cost associated with cash management has
two elements 1) cost of conversion of marketable securities into cash 2)
opportunity cash. The firm has to incur holding cost of cash if it keeps cash
balances with themselves in the form of opportunity cost. The firm also have to
incur transactions costs for converting marketable securities into cash. But both
the above cost will vary inversely if holding cost is higher transactions cost will be
lesser. In case of lesser holding cost transaction cost will be higher.
3) Speculative motive- The firms desire to keep some cash balance to capitalize
an opportunity of making an unexpected profit is known as speculative motive.
Ø How much inventories be maintained by firm- the firm must have an optimal
level of inventories.
1) Transaction motive
2) Precautionary motive
3) Speculation motive
1) Material cost- It is the costs of purchasing the goods & related costs,
transportation & handling costs.
2) Ordering cost – The expenses incurred to place orders with suppliers and
replenish the inventory of raw materials are called ordering cost.
3) Carrying cost- cost incurred for maintaining the inventory in warehouse are
called carrying cost.
4) Shortage costs or stock out cost- these are the costs associated with either a
delay in meeting the demand or inability to meet the demand at all due to
shortage of stock also called hidden cost.
Ø Items of high value require maximum attention while items of low value do not
require same degree of control. The firm has to be selective in its approach to
control its investment in various items of inventories. Such an approach is known
as selective inventory control. ABC system belongs to selective inventory control.
Ø ABC analysis classifies all the inventory items in an organization into three
cateogries-
1) Items are of high value but small in number, all items require strict control.
Ø It refers to the optimal order size that will result in the lowest ordering and
carrying cost for an item of inventory based on its expected cycle.
Ø EOQ= √2AO/C, A= annual cost, O= ordering cost, C= carrying cost per unit.
RECEIVABLES MANAGEMENT
Ø Amounts due from customers, when goods are sold on credit are called trade
credit.
Ø The receivables emerge whenever goods are sold on credit and payment are
deferred by customers.
Ø Receivables are created when a firm sells goods or services to its customers and
accepts, instead of the immediate cash payment, the promise to pay within the
specified period.
Ø Higher credit sales at more liberal terms will no doubt increase the profit of the
firm but simultaneously also increases the risk of bad debts as well as result in
more and more funds blocking in the receivables. So a careful analysis of various
aspects of the credit policy is required. This is what known as receivables
management.
1) Cost of financing/ capital cost- The credit sales delays the time of sales
realization and therefore the time gap between incurring the cost and the sales
realization is extended. This results in blocking of funds for a longer period. The
firm on the other hand, has to arrange funds to meet its own obligation towards
payment to the supplier, employees. These funds are to be procured at one
implicit or explicit cost. This is known as the cost of financing the receivables.
2) Administrative cost- when a firm sells goods on credit it has incur two types of
administrative costs 1) credit investigation & supervision cost 2) collection cost.
4) Bad debt or default cost- when the firm is unable to recover the amount due
from its customers, its results in bad debts. When a firm relaxes its credit policy
selling to customers with relatively low credit rating occurs. In this process a firm
may make credit sales to its customers who do not pay at all.
Ø If its take strict credit policy then following things will happen- sales reduce,
reduce bad debts, reduce delinquency cost, reduce collection cost, reduce
opportunity cost but increase liquidity of the firm.
Ø If it takes liberal policy towards credit policy then following things will happen-
increase sales, increase bad debts, increase delinquency cost, increase collection
cost, increase opportunity cost, increase profit, increase potential cost and
decrease in liquidity of firm.
1) To generate sales
2) To maximize profit
Ø A period of NET 30 days means maximum time to pay the amount is 30 days.
1) Credit policy – The credit policy may be defined as the set of parameters and
principles that govern the extension of credit to the customers. The following are
the four varieties of credit policy variables are-
1) Credit standard
2) Credit period
3) Cash discount
4) Collection programme
Ø Credit standard- when a firm sells on credit it takes a risk about the paying
capacity of the customers. Therefore to be on a safer side, it must set credit
standard which should be applied in selecting customers for credit sales. The
problem is to balance the benefits of additional sales against the cost of
increasing bad debts.
Ø Credit period- It refers to the length of the time over which the customers are
allowed to delay the payment or to make the payment. Credit policy generally
varies from 30 days to 60 days. Customary practices are important factor in
deciding the credit period.