These cost-of-capital exercises stress the weighted-average cost of capital, beginning with a simple capital structure and extending to a company with a complete balance sheet, including four separate debt issues. The problems demand that several different estimates of cost of equity be computed...

Theories on cost of capital have been around for decades. Unfortunately for practice, the academic discussions typically stop at a high level of generality, leaving important questions for application unanswered. Recent upheavals in financial markets have only made the practitioner's task more...

Theories on cost of capital have been around for decades. Unfortunately for practice, the academic discussions typically stop at a high level of generality, leaving important questions for application unanswered. Recent upheavals in financial markets have only made the practitioner's task more...