What is the ideal financing mix for a company? How can a company achieve an optimal balance between leverage and return from a market investor’s perspective? Join BDO’s
Valuation & Business Analytics practice for a comprehensive approach that involves the consideration of a firm’s dynamic cost of capital and credit quality, all while analyzing current capital market conditions. The discussion will cover best practices in assessing the impacts of various debt levels on a company’s operating cash flows, capital constrains, and strategic options available with each leverage scenario.
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the benefits of achieving long-term target capital structure that supplements a firm’s value creation strategy
- Discuss a holistic framework that considers strategic alignment, financial soundness, credit analytics, and capital market diagnosis
- Identify the analytical procedures essential for conducting a comprehensive capital structure optimization assessment
Delivery: This webinar will be delivered via the BDO Online CPE Network
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Prep: None
Credits: 1.0 CPE credit in the field of Finance
Program Level: Basic
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Discussion topics include:
- Comprehensive analytical framework for capital structure optimization:
- Financial Soundness Assessment: Assessment of the financial viability and flexibility associated with anticipated transactions and/or capital plans by modeling out the investment and cash flow metrics associated with various scenarios
- Credit Rating Analysis: Overview of quantitative methods employed to estimate current ratings and develop forecast credit rating estimates over time
- Capital Market Diagnosis: Discussion on in-depth capital market analyses to help companies understand prevailing funding costs, investors availability, and comparable primary and secondary market transactions
- Capital Structure Optimization: Considerations associated with the design of an optimal capital structure as part of the support for a company’s growth profile
- Financing Structure / Deal Advisory: Negotiations of deal terms and financing structures during the transaction planning and execution process leveraging the analyses performed as part of the capital structure optimization process
- Benefits associated with an optimal capital structure as part of the firm’s value creation strategy