Capital Structure is a combination of financial instruments like equity shares, preference shares, long-term loans, debentures, bonds or retained earnings that a business uses to raise funds for its operations. These long-term options help firms carry out their economic activities to generate profits.
Below are some multiple-choice questions and answers on Capital Structure to help students understand the topic:
- Which of these is not a part of Capital Structure?
- Equity Shares
- Debentures
- Short-term borrowings
- Bonds
- Capital Structure refers to which of the following options:
- Current assets and current liabilities
- Shareholders equity
- Long term debt, preferred stock and common stock options
- None of the above
- The main aim of capital structure is to:
- Maximise owner’s return and minimise the cost of capital
- Maximise owner’s return and maximise the cost of capital
- Minimise owner’s return and minimise the cost of capital
- Minimise owner’s return and maximise the cost of capital
- The process of financing the assets of a business is known as:
- Asset Structure
- Owners Structure
- Financial Structure
- Capital Structure
- Capital Structure is an optimal mix of which one of the following options:
- Sales and profits
- Debt and equity
- Current assets and fixed assets
- None of the above
- Capital structure ______________ financial structure
- Is a part of
- Is not a part of
- Is the same as
- Is different from
- To get a broad idea of the risk profile of a business, one should look at their ________
- Capital structure
- Dividend policy
- Profit and loss statement
- None of the above
- Capital Structure is a part of ___________:
- The asset side of a balance sheet
- The liability side of a balance sheet
- The Trial Balance
- None of the above
- Which of the following options is a part of the Capital Structure of a company?
- Short-term borrowings
- Accounts payable
- Equity shares
- None of the above
- Which of the above factors helps to determine the capital structure of a firm?
- Government policies
- Degree of Control
- Cost of capital
- All of the above
- In an organisation, the shareholders’ wealth is represented by:
- The salary paid to employees
- The market price of a share
- The book value of a firm’s assets
- None of the above
- The market price of an equity share is determined by:
- The president of a company
- The board of directors
- Buyers and sellers of those shares
- The stock exchange where those shares are getting traded
- The price at which a bond gets traded at a stock exchange is known as:
- Maturity Value
- Market Value
- Face Value
- Redemption Value
- ___________ and ____________ are two financial instruments that carry a fixed rate of interest and they have to be paid off regardless of whether the firm earns revenue or not.
- Equity Shares, Preference Shares
- Equity Shares, Debentures
- Bonds, Debentures
- Equity Shares, Bonds
- Which of the following methods should a company use to improve (lower) its debt to equity ratio?
- Buy common stock
- Shift long-term debt to short term debt
- Borrow more
- Shift short-term debt to long-term debt
- The claims by preferred shareholders on a firm’s assets and income come ________ those of ordinary shareholders and ________ those of creditors.
- Before; also before
- After; after
- Before; after
- After; before
- Which of the following options is an example of marketable securities?
- Long-term equity securities
- Long-term debt instruments
- Short-term debt instruments
- Short-term equity securities
- Which of the following options is false?
- The cost of equity capital is lower than the cost of debt before taxes
- The cost of equity capital is very difficult to estimate
- The cost of equity capital is the minimum rate that a business should earn on the part of investment financed by equity
- None of the above
- The equity shares of a company must give a higher return than debt because:
- Bonds require a market premium
- Demand for equity shares is greater than bonds
- Demand for equity shares is lesser than bonds
- Equity shares involve more systematic risk
- Which of these options, apart from cash, are instruments to distribute profits to shareholders?
- Stock purchase
- Bonus shares
- Stock split
- All of the above
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