Percentage of Sales
Growth
Equations on Lock?
Methods for Raising Capital
Alternate Financing
200
When costs vary directly with sales, this is constant.

What is profit margin?

200

As growth for a firm continues beyond "low levels of growth," this will be required.

What is external financing?
200

The alternate way of solving for equity multiplier.

What is 1 + (D/E)?

200

In this method, a specified number of shares are bought by underwriters and sold at a higher price.

What is a firm commitment cash offer?

200

This type of offering allows current shareholders to buy new shares at a discount to avoid dilution.

What is a rights offering?

400

If a firm is operating at full capacity, all assets vary directly with this.

What is sales?

400

IGR tells us how much a firm can grow assets using only this.

What are retained earnings?

400

If given the retention ratio, and you need to know the dividend payout ratio, solve by this using this equation.

What is 1 - Retention Ratio?

400

In a direct rights offer, the company offers the new stock directly to these people.

What are existing shareholders?

400

This is the typical duration for a lockup period for insiders after an IPO.

What is 180 days?

600

Notes payable, LTD, and equity are considered these. Therefore, notes payable, LTD, and equity do not vary directly with sales.

What are financing decisions?

600
This is missing from this list of the four determinants of growth: profit margin, financial leverage, dividend policy.

What is total asset turnover?

600

1 - (Dividends / Net Income) conveniently solves for this important number.

What is Retention Ratio? (b)

600

This is the only private method for issuing new capital.

What is direct placement?

600

Daily Double!

This type of financing turns illiquid assets into tradable securities.

800

At this level of growth, internal financing may exceed the required investment in assets.

What is low growth?

800

Both IGR and SGR assume that this remains constant. 

What is the dividend payout ratio?

800

When completing the pro forma balance sheet, Y2 equity is calculated by adding these.

What is Y1 Equity + Y2 Dividends?

800

In a Dutch auction cash offer, investment bankers auction shares to determine this.

What is the highest offer price obtainable?

800

This allows companies to register a large issue and sell it off in smaller chunks over time.

What is shelf registration?

1000

This is the main source of internal financing for a firm.

What is retained earnings?

1000

The goal of SGR is to identify how much a firm can grow its assets by using internally-generated and issuing debt, all while keeping this constant. 

What is debt ratio?

1000

TAT is the reciprocal of this.

What is capital intesisty ratio?

1000

In a standby rights offer, these are guaranteed by the underwriters.

What are net proceeds?

1000
This type of loan is a private debt with maturities of 1-5 years, repaid over the life of the loan.

What is a term loan?