- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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The view that issuing debt is generally valuable, but that the firm's optimal choice of capital structure involves various other views of capital structure (net corporate/personal tax, agency cost, bankruptcy cost, and pecking order), that result from considerations of asymmetric information, asymmetric taxes, and transaction costs.
Industry:Financial services
Movement of cash from different lockbox locations into a single concentration account from which disbursements and investments are made.
Industry:Financial services
Value of cash, accounts receivable, inventories, marketable securities and other assets that could be converted to cash in less than 1 year.
Industry:Financial services
Placing limits on the amount of new investment undertaken by a firm, either by using a higher cost of capital, or by setting a maximum on the entire capital budget or parts of it.
Industry:Financial services
The per-share or per-bond compensation of a selling group for participating in a corporate underwriting.
Industry:Financial services
A bond selling at or close to par, that is, a bond with a coupon close to the yields currently offered on new bonds of a similar maturity and credit risk.
Industry:Financial services
Financing required for the operation of a business, composed of long-term and working capital plus fixed assets.
Industry:Financial services
An understanding between a company and the host government that specifies the rules under which the company can operate locally.
Industry:Financial services
One of two types of shares in a dual-purpose investment company, which entitle the holder to the appreciation or depreciation in the value of a portfolio, as well as the gains from trading in the portfolio. Antithesis of income shares.
Industry:Financial services
Applies mainly to convertible securities. Circumstances under which a company can effect an earlier call, usually stated as percentage of a stock's trading price during a particular period, such as 140% of the exercise price during a 40-day trading span.
Industry:Financial services
