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Finansowanie kapitałem obcym – konfrontacja praktyki gospodarczej z elementami teorii
Debt financing – confrontation of economic practice with elements of theory

Author(s): Agnieszka Cenkier
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: debt financing; capital structure; financial performance; financial restructuring

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the study is debt financing of enterprises, a factor significantly affecting the situation of entities conducting economic activity. The aim of the study is to meet the view on the need of engage debt in the pursuit of maximizing the benefits and market value presented in the theory of corporate finance and the theory of capital structure with economic practice. The study covered the original set of financial indicators in the years 2014-2020 in ten listed Polish production companies included in the GIP60. The survey companies accounted for the 10% of the composition of the index and about 10% of its capitalization what is likely to representative of all companies included in the index. The results of the study presented in the table in the appendix were used to define the kind of relationship between the scale of debt and the scale of operations, as well as the financial situation of each entity. The selection of indicators was made due to their usefulness in the attempt to define the aforementioned relationship.

  • Issue Year: 62/2021
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 4-14
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish