This article investigates the impact of the observation that managers can use cash to defer bankruptcy on default risk and corporate financial policies. I show that with managerial cash use to defer default, the impact of cash on default risk depends on two opposing channels. While cash provides...

Persuaded by the pecking order assumptions, where internal fund is preferred over debt and equity when financing investment projects, this study provided empirical evidence on the interaction between working capital management and corporate debt structure, and the effect of this on corporate...

Investment spending by US public firms is highly concentrated. The 100 largest spenders account for 60% of total capital expenditures and drive most of the variation in aggregate US investment. This high concentration creates a disconnect between the average public firm and macroeconomic...

The DCF method or multiples are used to value companies in practice. Starting with the value additivity principle, the paper presents a general framework for DCF valuation. This framework allows defining stepwise and aggregated approaches to value risky cash flows and identifying inconsistent...

We apply sensitivity analysis to Scandinavian non-financial firms and find limited consistency in the detected exchange rate exposures at the firm-specific level when altering methodology (observation frequency and market index) using a traditional two factor stock market approach. The results...

This paper has three main objectives: (1) to illustrate the principles of financial modeling, (2) to review the different methods used in discounted cash flow valuation and (3) to show how the financial statements of financial accounting can be restructured to improve its usefulness in the...

This paper documents the role of capital markets in financing nonfinancial French firms since the adoption of the euro and analyzes its implications for risk using a structural model of credit risk. The analysis suggests that market financing has played a more important role in financing French...

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a holistic, integrated approach to managing a company's risks, in contrast to the so-called "silo-approach" prevalent in many firms in which risks are managed independently of each other. Yet for all the risk exposures that are brought under the corporate...

This paper develops a simple signaling model whereby high valuation firm uses levels of investment, debt and dividends to convey information to the market regarding its valuation. Conditions are determined under which investment, debt and dividends are employed in a separating Nash equilibrium....

This study examined the effect of working capital management (WCM) on the financial performance of quoted conglomerate firms in Nigeria for the period 2006 to 2016. Account receivable period (ARP), account payable period (APP), inventory turnover period (INV) and cash conversion cycle (CCC) were...