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Sources of Long-term Financing
Introduction
We have discussed in the previous module, the capital structure of a business
firm. Companies fund their current and new assets using capital. These
capital that are used to finance assets are of two origins – equity financing or
shares that the firm sells to prospective investors called shareholders, debt
financing or the firm’s borrowed money from creditors, and retained
earnings or the portion of the net income that is retained by the company and
reinvested.
The company’s preference funding capital depends on the size of the
business, its life cycle and plans for future growth.
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even more. This finances are usually used to fund capital expenditures
(fixed assets e.g. plant and machinery, land and building, etc.). Examples
of long-term sources of finance are share capital, preference shares,
retained earnings, bonds, term loans from financial institutions,
international financing by means of euro issue, foreign currency loans.
2. Medium Term Sources of Finance. This pertains to financing for a period
of three to five years. There are two possible reasons for this type of
financing: long term capital is not currently available, and deferred
revenue expenditures are incurred and to be written off over the period
of three to five years. Examples of this medium term sources are
preference shares, bonds, and medium term loans for financial
institutions, lease, and hair-purchase finance.
3. Short term Sources of Finance. Short term financing is funding for a short
period of less than one year. This usually funds current assets like
inventory of materials, finished goods, debtors, etc. This is also termed
working capital financing. These sources are in the form of trade credits,
short term loan from commercial banks, advances received from
customers, creditors, factoring services, and bill discounting.
Finances Categorized as to Ownership and Control
In selecting a finance source for the firm, there are constraints that should
be considered: interest and sharing of ownership and control.
1. Owned capital or ownership shares. This is referred to as equity
capital. These finances came from the investors or general public in
exchange of the issuance of new shares of stock. Owner’s capital is
obtained from equity capital, preference capital, retained earnings,
convertible debentures/bonds, and private equity.
2. Borrowed capital. Also called Debt financing. This capital is sourced
from outside sources including loans from family, relatives, and
friends and external loans from financing institutions, commercial
banks, and the general public in the form of debentures/bonds.
Features of borrowed capital include:
a) The company-borrower will pay the creditors first in case of
liquidation.
b) Regular payment of interest and repayment of capital.
c) There is no reduction in ownership and business control.
d) Interest or the cost of borrowed funds is a deduction for tax
purposes resulting to decrease in taxes for the company.
e) It provides the firm a leverage benefit.
In the following sections, we will discuss the following major sources of long-
term financing:
1. Bonds
2. Preference shares
3. Ordinary or common shares
4. Lease
Bonds
A bond is a promise in writing under seal, to pay a definite sum of money
with a fixed rate of interest thereon, at a definite future time or date, made by
one person to another or bearer. This is evidenced by a bond certificate
issued by a corporation or a government body representing the loan made by
the investor to the issuer of bonds.
The bond certificate shows the name of the company-issuer, the principal
amount the firm borrowed from the bondholder, the bond’s face value, and
interest rate to be paid by the issuer, dates of payment, maturity date and
value.
Issuance of bonds usually requires the services of a security underwriter,
which can be an investment bank or other financial institutions. The
underwriter purchases the bonds from the issuing company and resells them
to prospective clients.
Other agreements between the underwriter and the issuing firm in trading
bonds are as follows:
1. The investment bank can negotiate directly with the issuer.
2. The underwriter can participate in bidding for the purchase of bonds.
3. An investment bank can be a sole underwriter by acquiring exclusive
right to sell the bonds.
4. The investment bank can make an agreement with the issuer to sell the
bonds at the best market price it can for issuing company, not
guaranteeing a fixed price with the selling firm.
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Advantages of using bonds in the capital structure
1. Long-term debts are less expensive and the interest payments are
deductible for tax purposes.
2. Many investors considered these as a relatively safe investment.
3. Bondholders (buyers of the bonds) are paid interest and do not share
in the extraordinary earnings of the firm.
4. Bondholders are not corporate voters.
5. Bond’s flotation costs are lower than those of ordinary equity shares.
Disadvantages of utilizing bonds are:
1. Long-term debts can cause the firm’s bankruptcy if it fails to meet
interest payments.
2. The fixed charges on bonds, other than income bonds, increase the
company’s financial leverage. This is unfavorable for firms with
unstable income.
3. Bonds’ repayment at maturity (principal amount) involves a huge
cash outflow.
4. Bonds’ restricting agreements may hamper the firm’s future financial
flexibility.
Current yield – pertains to the ratio of the annual interest payment to the
market price of the bonds.
Indenture- refers to the arrangements between the issuer and the bond
trustee who represents the bondholders. It includes the specific terms of
the loan agreement, description of the bonds, the bondholders’ rights, the
issuing firm’s rights and the responsibilities of the trustee.
Bond Premium – is the excess of the bond’s issue price over its maturity
or par value.
Bond Discount – is the excess of the bond’s maturity or par value over it
issue price.
Credit quality risk – refers to the possibility that the issuer of the bonds
will not be able to meet timely payments.
Bond ratings - relate to the opinions or perceptions about the future risk
potential of the bond. The following factors affect the bond ratings:
profitable operations, little inconsistencies of previous earnings, firm’s
size, less usage of subordinated debt, less application of financial
leverage.
Types of Bonds
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2. Secured Long-term Bonds
Mortgage Bonds. This type of bonds is secured by a lien on real
property. The value of the real property should be greater than the
value of the mortgage bonds issued. If the issuer fails to pay the bonds
at maturity, the trustees can foreclose or sell the mortgaged property
in order to pay the bondholders.
Sub- classifications of mortgage bonds are as follows:
o First mortgage bonds – bondholders of first mortgage bonds
are prioritized first in claims on the secured assets if the same
property has been pledged on more than one mortgaged
bonds.
o Second mortgage bonds – is next to first mortgage bonds on
claims and will be paid only after the first mortgage bonds’
claims are met.
o Blanket or general mortgage bonds – all the assets of the
company are utilized as security in this type of mortgage
bonds.
o Closed-end mortgage bonds – this does not allow the further
use of the pledged assets as security for other bonds.
o Open-end mortgage bonds – this allows the same pledged
assets as security for the issuance of additional mortgage
bonds. But this requires that additional assets to be added to
the secured property if new bonds are issued.
o Limited open-end mortgage bonds. These bonds allow the
issuance of additional bonds up to a limited amount of the
same priority using the same mortgaged property as security.
3. Other types of bonds
Retiring Debts
Repayment of debts can be done in the following ways:
1. Serial payments. Serial bonds are paid in installments over the life of the
issue. Each bond has its own maturity date and receives interest only up
to that point.
2. Conversion. This method of reducing outstanding debt provides for debt
conversion into ordinary shares as a prerogative of the bondholders.
3. Call provision. Callable bonds are bonds that the issuer may call or pay off
at a specified price whenever the issuer wants. These bonds give the
issuer the benefit of low interest rates by paying off callable bonds
whenever it is favorable. Interest rates fluctuate. The issuer may be able
to borrow at a lower interest rate and use the proceeds from new bonds
to pay off bonds issued at a higher interest rate. The call price is higher
than the bond’s par value. The difference is termed call premium.
4. Bond refunding. This is the process of retiring old bond issue prior to
maturity and replacing it by a new bond issue. Refunding occurs when
interest rates have gone low and new bonds can be sold at lower interest
rates.
Refunding is done if the benefits are greater than the costs. The decision
can be arrived at after comparing the present value of the benefits from
refunding versus the present value of the costs using the after-tax cost of
borrowing as the discount rate.
Preferred Shares
Preferred share is a kind of equity that gives its owners some advantages
over ordinary shareholders. These benefits include:
1. Right to receive dividends before the ordinary shareholders.
2. Right to receive assets of the company before ordinary shares in the event
of the firm’s liquidation.
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Attributes of Preferred Shares
Some of the major aspects of preferred shares for our understanding of this
type of equity financing are as follows:
Par value. This is the face value of the preferred share that appears on
the stock certificate.
Dividends. Stated as a percentage of par values, generally, on a fixed rate
and paid quarterly by the issuing company.
Cumulative and noncumulative dividends. Cumulative dividends are
those dividends on preferred shares not paid for a particular year. These
past dividends and the current ones must be paid before the ordinary
shareholders. If the dividends are noncumulative, they are not declared in
any particular year and are forfeited. No claims by the preferred
shareholders will be made.
Call feature and sinking fund provision. Preferred shares have no
maturity date. Majority of these shares have a call feature. This allows the
firm to buy-back the shares directly from its holders or owners but at a
price higher than its par value. This is termed call premium. The sinking
fund provision, on the other hand, requires the issuing company to
repurchase and retire the share on a scheduled basis.
Convertibility. Preferred shareholders have the choice of converting
preferred shares to ordinary shares, depending on the conditions set.
Voting rights. Generally, preferred shares have no voting rights
Participating features. Participating preferred shares give its owners the
right to share in the profits above and beyond the declared dividends
along with the ordinary shares.
Maturity. After more than three decades, most preferred shares have a
sinking fund and therefore an effective maturity date.
Preferred shares have bigger after-tax costs of capital than debt. This is
because dividends on preferred shares are not deductible while interest
is for tax purposes.
The dividend payments for preferred shares can be made quarterly, monthly
or annually, depending on the stated company policy. These fixed dividends
will also be the basis for valuation of preferred shares. The value of the
preferred shares can be calculated by discounting each of the dividend
payments. The fixed dividend payments can be treated in perpetuity and be
discounted using the investors required rate of return. Perpetuity is an
annuity with an infinite life span. Annuity is stream of cash flows. In finance,
it is a constant stream of identical cash flows with no end. The concept of
perpetuity is also used the dividend discount model.
Where:
V = value of preferred share
D = Cash Dividend per share
r = investor’s required rate of return on preferred share
Because the dividend is fixed every period, the formula can be reduced to;
V= D÷r
Illustrative Problem 4.1 Preferred Share Valuation
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EBC Company pays an annual P 10 dividend on its issue of preferred share.
The investors require an 8% rate of return on this preferred share.
Required: compute for the expected value of the preferred share.
Solution:
V = D /r
V = P 10 / .08
V = P 125
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Solution:
Po = Dp
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Ks
= P8.50
.12
= P 70.83
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Ordinary Equity Shares -Valuation models based on Dividend Growth
Rates
1. Zero Growth Dividend Valuation – This model presumes that the
dividends on ordinary equity share remain a fixed amount over time.
Formula is:
Po = Dp
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Ks
m
Do (1 + gs)t
Po = ∑
T = 1 (1 + ks)t
Where:
Gs = supernormal growth rate
m = period of supernormal growth
EBC expects dividends to grow at a rate of 12% a year for the next 6 years
and 8% annually thereafter. The company’s current dividend per share is
P3.00. The investors required rate of return is 15%.
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Solution:
First, find the present value of the dividends during the above-normal
growth period.
PV
Interest PV
Year Dividend Factor Dividend
1 P 3.00 X 1.120 = P 3.360 0.86957 P 2.92
2 P 3.00 X 1.254 = 3.762 0.75614 2.84
3 P 3.00 X 1.405 = 4.215 0.65752 2.77
4 P 3.00 X 1.574 = 4.722 0.57175 2.70
5 P 3.00 X 1.762 = 5.286 0.49718 2.63
6 P 3.00 X 1.974 = 5.922 0.43223 2.56
Total P 16.42
Second, find the PV of the share price in year 6.
Ps = (P 5.92 X 1.08) / .12 = P 53.33
Third, discount the share value at the end of year 6 to the present at the
15% rate of return.
PV = P 53.33 X .43233 = P 23.06
Fourth, add the PV of the 6 years dividends and the PV of the share value
in year 6 to get the value of the share at the end of the above normal
growth period.
Po = P 16.42 + P 23.06
= P 39.48
Lease Liability
A lease is a rental agreement in which the tenant or lessee acquired the use of
an asset and agrees to make rent payments to the lessor or the owner of the
property.
Classification of leases
There are two kinds of leases: Operating lease and Capital or Finance lease.
Operating Lease
The features of an operating lease are as follows:
1. It is short-term and can easily be cancelled.
2. The lessor is responsible for the maintenance of the asset.
3. The lessee uses the asset but the lessor retains the usual risks and
rewards of owning the asset.
4. The lessee has no option to purchase the asset after the end of the lease
term.
5. The lessor has the option to lease again the asset to another party.
6. The total of all lease payments by the lessee does not guarantee the full
recovery of the cost of the asset.
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XYZ Company grants EBC Corporation a lease with three months free (no-
payment) rent under a five- year operating lease. The lease is effective
January 1, 2017, with a monthly rental of P25, 000 to start on April 1, 2017.
How much rent expense must be reported in the income statement of EBC
Corp. on December 31, 2017?
Solution:
Term of the lease – 5 years 60 months
Less rent-free months 3 months
Number of lease payment 57 months
Lease per month P25, 000
Total rentals P1, 425,000
Lease term 5 years
Rent Expense, Dec. 31, 2017 P 285,000
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Note: If the lease agreement has a rent-free months, the total cash rental
should be amortized using the straight-line method unless there is another
specified method to use.
Finance/Capital Lease
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The lessee has the option to purchase the asset at a price which is
expected to be sufficiently lower than fair value at the date the option
becomes exercisable that, at the inception of the lease, it is reasonably
certain that the option will be exercised
The lease term is for the major part of the economic life of the asset, even
if title is not transferred
At the inception of the lease, the present value of the minimum lease
payments amounts to at least substantially all of the fair value of the
leased asset
The lease assets are of a specialized nature such that only the lessee can
use them without major modifications being made
Other situations that might also lead to classification as a finance lease are:
[IAS 17.11]
If the lessee is entitled to cancel the lease, the lessor's losses associated
with the cancellation are borne by the lessee
Gains or losses from fluctuations in the fair value of the residual fall to the
lessee (for example, by means of a rebate of lease payments)
The lessee has the ability to continue to lease for a secondary period at a
rent that is substantially lower than market rent
Solution:
Total lease liability, January 1, 2017 P 1,500,000
Less Payment 2017
Annual Rental P 150,000
Less
Interest (P1,500,000*9%) 135,000 15,000
Lease Liability, December 31, 2017 P 1,485,000
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Book References
Horngren, Charles T., Harrizon Jr., Walter T, & Bamber, Linda S. Accounting.
Fifth Edition. Prentice Hall International Edition
Medina, Roberto G. (2016 reprint) Business Finance. Rex Book Store, Manila.
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