Crash Course on Cost of Capital and Capital Structuring
What you'll learn
- have overview of Cost of Capital
- have overview of Capital Structure
Requirements
- Basics of Accounting
- Basics of Financial Management
Description
Welcome to this crash course on Cost of Capital and Capital Structuring.
In this course, you will have overview of Cost of Capital and Capital Structure matters.
About Cost of Capital:
Every business raise various forms of Capital for running the business.
None of the funds are free.
Each fund comes with a cost.
Every Entrepreneur, every Finance Manager should be aware of the Cost of Capital of their business.
Many businesses fail, because the management itself would not be aware of the Cost of Capital of the business.
Unless the returns earned from the business is greater than or equal to cost of capital, no business can sustain / grow.
Cost of Capital is used to evaluate new projects of a company. It is the minimum return that investors expect for providing capital to the company, thus setting a benchmark that a new project has to meet.
About Capital Structure of Business:
All the Business entities in this world, will work on this topic.
Because, Capital Structuring Decisions, would decide the long term stability of any business.
Business entities can have mix of their own funds and debt funds for running their business. But the mix should be an optimum one.
Wrong decisions in Capital Structuring would spoil the business which otherwise would have plenty scope for growth.
The capital structuring of the business also decides the leverage and returns for the owners.
About this course structure:
This course is structured in self paced learning style.
Video lectures are used for delivering course content.
Welcome to this course and all the very best.
Who this course is for:
- Finance and Accounting Students
- Finance and Accounting Executives
Course content
- Preview08:32
- 11:28Leverage Formula (Talking Head)
- 13:54Leverage Case Study 1 (Talking Head)
- 11:27Leverage Analysis Case Study 3 (Talking Head)
- 16:34Leverage Analysis Case Study 2 (Talking Head)
- Preview02:02
- 06:25Debt Vs Equity Financing
- 08:56Good Time and Bad Time for Debt Equity Financing
- 05:22Capital Structure
- 05:29Designing Optimal Capital Structure (Talking Head)
Instructor
![Raja Natarajan, B.Com., PGDBA, FCA](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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I am a Chartered Accountant with tonnes of passion for teaching.
I teach Financial Management & Strategic Financial Management for Chartered Accountancy, Cost and Management Accountancy and Company Secretary students in Ernakulam, India. I also hold Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration in Finance from Symbiosis, Pune and Bachelors in Commerce, from Loyola College, Chennai.
I worked in State Bank of India as Assistant Vice President - Credit for a period of four years after which i started my Chartered Accountancy Practice. During the stint in State Bank of India, I worked on credit proposals of Mid Corporate Units and gained good experience in Financial Analysis, Risk Assessment, Viability Study, Evaluating business models, Project Finance, Working Capital Management, etc.
I conduct work shops for Entrepreneurs, Chartered Accountancy / Cost and Management Accountancy Students on the topics like Project Finance, Credit Risk Assessment, Entrepreneurship Development, Finance for Non Finance Executives, etc.
I love teaching and i want fundamentals of accounting and finance to reach students and so i am here.