Corporate Issuers

  Flotation costs are expenses that a company incurs during the process of raising additional capital. The value of these flotation costs is related to the amount and type of capital being raised. When a company raises debt and preferred…

[vsw id=”HkoJ_nedolg” source=”youtube” width=”611″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] A preferred stock that does not give its holder the right to convert their preferred shares into a fixed number of common shares, usually after a predetermined date, is called a nonconvertible preferred stock….

The cost of debt is the cost of financing a debt whenever a company incurs a debt by either issuing a bond or taking a bank loan. Two methods for estimating the before-tax cost of debt are the yield-to-maturity approach…

A company’s liquidity is measured by the extent to which it has current assets, i.e., cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable and inventory which can be readily used to satisfy its short-term obligations. Measuring Liquidity Liquidity ratios assist in measuring the…