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Determinanty finančnej štruktúry slovenských malých a stredných podnikov
Determinants of Financial Structure of Slovak SMEs

Author(s): Elena Fetisovová, Lenka Kalusová
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: financial and capital structure; small and medium-sized enterprises; determinants of financial structure; business factors; industry factors; country factors

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the need to assess a capital structure in a discount rate within income business valuation consistently with the financial plan and the final business value. It analyses mistakes resulting from simplified estimates of a capital structure. The article also points out importance of a choice of the appropriate reagent function for equity cost calculation according to a firm’s leverage and it presents proposals for modification of the leveraged beta function and for analytical calculation of equity cost that provide the same firm’s value as the direct recalculation of equity cost by the iterative method.

  • Issue Year: 63/2015
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 278-300
  • Page Count: 23