Finance assignment

Assignment 2: Business Financing and the Capital Structure

Due Week 8 and worth 240 points

Businesses have to make many financial decisions that have a direct impact on operations and the ability

to successfully compete in the marketplace. Base your writing on the information from the course coupled

with information located in the Strayer databases or Internet.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Assume that you are financial advisor to a business. Describe the advice that you would give to

the client for raising business capital using both debt and equity options in today’s economy.

Outline the major advantages and disadvantages of each option.

2. Summarize the advice that you would give the client on selecting an investment banker to assist

the business in raising this capital.

3. Explain the historical relationships between risk and return for common stocks versus corporate

bonds. Explain the manner in which diversification helps in risk reduction in a portfolio. Support

response with actual data and concepts learned in this course.

4. Use at least one (1) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as

academic resources. However, you may use data sources, such as Yahoo Finance.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all

sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your

professor for any additional instructions.

 Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s

name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in

the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: