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ABSTRACT Taking financing decision is one of the major functions of a financial manager. A corporation may decide to use all equity capital or a combination of debt and equity capital. However, the decision to use debt as part of a corporation capital is important as it can magnify shareholders returns and also increase the risk of such returns.  The relationship between capital structure and corporate performance implies that there ...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect which capital structure choice has on performance of petroleum companies in Nigeria as one of the energy or transition economies. I investigated the relationship between return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), and the earnings per share (EPS) and the capital structure for a sample of 4 petroleum companies from the Nigeria Stock Exchange from 2003 to ...

ABSTRACT Taking financing decision is one of the major functions of a financial manager. A corporation may decide to use all equity capital or a combination of debt and equity capital. However, the decision to use debt as part of a corporation capital is important as it can magnify shareholders returns and also increase the risk of such returns. The relationship between capital structure and corporate performance implies that there ...

Abstract There exists divergence of opinion in literature on the relationship between capital structure and firms financial performance. This mix of opinions makes the direction of the relationship between debt holders and equity holders to be controversial. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of capital structure on financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The study formulated four hypotheses and used generalized least square multiple regression to analyze the ...

ABSTRACT Capital structure is the proportion or each type of capital debt and equity used by a business organisation. Many organizations employ debt in their capital structure because of its benefits. One of the benefits is that interest on debt is tax deductible and reduces tax liability of the organizations concerned. Furthermore, failure to pay interest commitment can result to financial backwardness. The financial managers consider so many factors in ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.1  GENERAL INTRODUCTION A Corporation, Private or Public need capital to enable it achieves its objectives.  Capital structure implies the nature and proportion of elements, which go to make up the capital invested in a business corporations that are in need of funds exchange their financial instruments for the money provided by the intermediaries or direct from savers.  This money the corporations convert to tangible assets as building, land, ...

Abstract This study aims to investigate the impact of  cash conversion cycle  on capital structure and financial characteristics. The main aim of the study was to ascertain the impact of cash conversion cycle on capital structure of an organization. A sample of 133 staff of Omatek venture were used for the study. Cash conversion cycle is an important measure for companies in measuring the operating cycle where the work cycle ...

GENERAL BACKGROUND Cash can be seen as  a means of payment for goods and services. It therefore plays a major roles in the capital structure in any economy. Before any project is conceived, priority must be given to some financial structures which is seen as a backbone to caterport the conceived idea into reality.  Again, there must be some asset put in place which would as well be of relevance ...

Abstract Taking financing decision is one of the major functions of a financial manager. A corporation may decide to use all equity capital or a combination of debt and equity capital. However, the decision to use debt as part of a corporation capital is important as it can magnify shareholders returns and also increase the risk of such returns. The relationship between capital structure and corporate performance implies that there ...