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प्रश्न
Explain the following as factor affecting dividend decision:
Growth opportunities
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उत्तर
Growth Prospects: Companies with higher growth prospects prefer to retain a greater portion of their earnings for future reinvestment. Accordingly, they pay lesser dividends.
संबंधित प्रश्न
'Mission Coach Ltd.' is a large and creditworthy company manufacturing coaches for Indian Railways. It now wants to export these coaches to other countries and decides to invest in
new hi-tech machines. Since the investment is large, it requires long-term finance. It decides to raise funds by issuing equity shares. The issue of equity shares involves huge floatation cost. To meet the expenses of floatation cost, the company decides to tap the money market.
1) Name and explain the money-market instrument the company can use for the above
purpose
2) What is the duration for which the company can get funds through this instrument?
3) State any other purpose for which this instrument can be used.
Vasvi was a student of Commerce in class XII. Her father was a farmer, who grew different varieties of wheat and was well versed about various aspects of wheat cultivation. He was also selected by the government for a pilot-project on wheat cultivation. As a project, she decided to study the feasibility of marketing good quality wheat at the reasonable price. Her father suggested to her to use the internet to gather customers’ views and opinions. She found that there was a huge demand for organic packed wheat. She knew that there were no pre-determined specifications in case of wheat, because of which it would be difficult to achieve uniformity in the output. To differentiate the product from its competitors, she gave it the name of ‘Mahan-organic wheat’ and classified it into three different varieties namely — Popular, Classic and Supreme, based on the quality. She felt that these names would help her in product differentiation.
Explain the three functions of marketing, with reference to the above paragraph
Explain the following as factor affecting dividend decision:
Legal constraints
Explain the following as factor affecting 'financing decision'.
Level of fixed operating cost
What is ‘Financial Risk?’ Why does it arise?
| Ananta Ltd. is a company dealing in ready-made garments for the last many years. Recently the profit of the company has started increasing. The finance manager decided to retain the profit instead of distributing it among shareholders. |
- Identify and state the financial decision taken by the finance manager in the above case.
- State any three factors affecting the decision identified in (i) above.
| Ravi has joined as a finance manager at MTA Ltd. He had to arrange funds of rupees one crore for the company. The Chief Executive Officer of the company wants to arrange the funds by a public issue whereas the finance manager wants to have a mix of debt and equity as this will determine the overall cost of capital and the financial risk of the enterprise. |
- Identify and give the meaning of the financial decision suggested by the finance manager in the above case.
- State any three factors affecting the decision identified in (i) above.
What must a business decide about each available source of finance?
What are shareholders’ funds?
Which statement about payment of dividends on equity is correct?
Why is cheaper debt not automatically the best source of finance?
What is financial risk?
What happens to debt’s interest and principal commitments when profits are inadequate?
What generally happens as the proportion of debt in total capital increases?
How does a higher floatation cost affect a financing source?
How does higher financial risk affect the suitability of taking on more debt?
Which sequence correctly orders the seven factors affecting financing decisions?
