Capital Financing and Allocation - Debt Capital

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Explain capital financing and capital allocation

  • Capital financing is the obtaining of capital funds from investors and lenders.
  • Capital allocation is investing of these funds in equipment tools and other resources. 

Decision by a company to implement an engineering project involves the expenditure of current capital funds to obtain;

  • Economic benefits
  • Meets safety
  • Regulatory
  • Other operating requirements

How are capital financing and capital allocation linked to each other, what is the goal?

Closely linked decision processes regarding how much and where the financial resources will be obtained and expended on future engineering projects and other capital projects to obtain;
  • Economic growth;
  • Improved competitiveness; 
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When seeking to obtain new capital for investment how can a company attract new investors?

By paying a rate or return that is attractive in a competitive market in which many different securities are offered.

Debt capital | One source of capital is borrowed money, in what [3] ways can it be attained?

  1. Loaned by banks;
  2. Sale of bonds | Contract between 2 companies;
  3. Debentures | Bond not backed by collateral (security for lending);

On what does the attractiveness of a bond depend?

  • Interest rate offered;
  • Perceived riskiness of the offering

What is tax deductibility?

A tax deduction is a deduction that lowers person tax liability by lowering their taxable income.

The interest that borrowers pay is tax-deductible. Generally, this should be considered in engineering economic analysis of the capital investment. What are [2] ways to accomplish this?

  1. Compute interest during each year and deduct it from the project cash flows before computing incomes taxes and net to consider the interest and principal reductions.
  2. Modify the cost of debt to account for its tax deductibility in the interest rate MARR/WACC

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