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Combined leverage is the combined result of operating leverage and financial leverage.
Financial leverage makes no impact on stockholders as any stockholder who prefers the proposed capital structure (ie leverage) can simply create it using homemade leverage. Note: financial leverage refers to the extent to which a firm relies on debt. Homemade leverage is the use of personal borrowing to change the overall amount of financial leverage to which the individual is exposed
Leverage is the amount of debt relative to shareholder capital, or equity. So a company with 3 times as much debt as equity is three times leveraged.
Financial leverage is important to financial management because it will give an advantage. It allows the organization or entity to have more security.
The term financial leverage means a way to calculate gains and losses. Normal ways of getting financial leverage is to borrow money or by buying fixed assets.
Composite leverage equals financial leverage times operating leverage. Composite leverage is used to calculate the combined effect of operating and financial leverages. Leverage is the ratio of a company's debt to its equity.
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As the financial leverage increases, the breakeven point of the company increases. The company now has to sell more of its product (or service) in order to break even. As the financial leverage increases, the risk to banks and other lenders increases because of the higher probability of bankruptcy. As the financial leverage increases, the risk to stockholders increases because greater losses may be incurred if the company goes bankrupt. As the financial leverage increases, the risk to stockholders increases because the higher leverage will cause greater volatility in earnings and greater volatility in the stock price.
disadvantages of a high leverage ratio in financial crisis
operating leverage is related to the investiment which is runing the business as finacial leverage related to the total equity minus laibalities .
The higher the interest rate on new debt, the less attractive financial leverage is to the firm