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CAPITAL
STRUCTURE
SUBMITTED BY:-
HARINDER
FACTORS DETERMINING
THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE
Financial Leverage or Trading on Equity.
Cost of Capital.
Risk.
Control.
Flexibility.
Requirement of Investors.
Assets structure.
CAPITAL GEARING
The term “CAPITAL GEARING” refers to the relationship
between equity capital and Long term debt. A company is
said to be in high gear, when it has a proportionately large
issue of debentures & preference shares for raising long
term resources, whereas low gear stands for a
proportionately large issue of equity shares.
This example illustrates clearly the terms ‘high gear’ &
‘low gear’ :-
10,00,000 10,00,000