Why do wide variations in the use of financial leverage occur both across industries and among individual firms in each industry?

CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND LEVERAGE Debt: Rocket Booster or Anchor? Define optimal capital structure and differentiate it from targetcapital structure. What four factors influence the target capital structure? In what sense does setting the target capital structure involve atrade-off between risk and return? Why might market conditions cause a firm’s actual capital structureto vary from its […]