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The day-to-day decisions a small business owner makes are typically operational -- how much to charge, for example, or how to arrange a store or how many employees to schedule. But businesses also ...

Learn about capitalization structure and how the combination of debt and equity a company uses to fund operations can affect its profitability.

A company’s capital structure refers to how it finances its operations and growth with different sources of funds, such as bond issues, long-term notes payable, common stock, preferred stock, or ...

The capital structure of a company directly impacts its profitability and ability to continue as a going concern. If a company is over-leveraged and cash flows are insufficient to meet recurring debt ...

Capital structure refers to the mix of funding sources a company uses to finance its assets and its operations. The sources typically can be bucketed into equity and debt. Using internally generated ...

A number of developments in the past few years have dramatically changed the framework for evaluating capital structure alternatives for U.S. insured depository institutions of all sizes. First, the ...

Most private companies don’t spend much time thinking about their capital structure. A few people own the business, and they typically have a relationship with a commercial bank that works well for ...