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Discussion - Corporate Finance

A. You should post your initial response by the date indicated in the module calendar. Please be sure to reference your sources in appropriate Harvard formatting and to provide substantive evidence of any claims that you make. Where appropriate, include personal anecdotes, statistics, and references to additional reading or materials. After you have posted your initial response, visit the forum again over the coming days to read the responses of your peers. You should respond to at least two other students by asking them to elaborate on a point, providing a counter-argument, suggesting a topic for debate, or referring back to the extended reading or video clips.

Question: This task is to prepare a management report based on capital structure and the corporate lifecycle, following the instructions below:

Prepare a short report in which you:

1. Compare and contrast the typical capital structure for companies across the following industries: financial (banking), technology (software), airlines (air transport), and retail (general, excluding online).

2. Critically evaluate how the stage of the corporate lifecycle can influence (or limit) the choices of finance and, therefore, a firm's capital structure.

Required length: 1,000 to 1,200 words in a report style submission. Harvard style referencing is required. While we expect you to present your own opinion and your own ideas, we encourage you also to base your analysis on statistical data and opinions of analysts and researchers, as well as any industry or company releases or reports that you may have reviewed.

B. You should post your initial response by the date indicated in the module calendar. Please write at least 700 words and you should not exceed 1,000 words. Please be sure to reference your sources in appropriate Harvard formatting and to provide substantive evidence of any claims that you make. Where appropriate, include personal anecdotes, statistics, and references to additional reading or materials.

Question: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) make up the majority of business organisations in many economies, both developed and developing. Read the two articles below and critically evaluate the financing issues for SMEs in emerging and developed economies.

C. You should post your initial response by the date indicated in the module calendar. Please write at least 500 words and you should not exceed 1,000 words. Please be sure to reference your sources in appropriate Harvard formatting and to provide substantive evidence of any claims that you make. Where appropriate, include personal anecdotes, statistics, and references to additional reading or materials.

After you have posted your initial response, visit the forum again over the coming days to read the responses of your peers. You should respond to at least two other students by asking them to elaborate on a point, providing a counter-argument, suggesting a topic for debate, or referring back to the extended reading or video clips. After you answer the question, comment on at least 2 discussion posts by your fellow students.

Question: Consider the articles below and the requirements under Dodd-Frank post-crisis. Provide your views on whether increased regulation is a must, or whether companies and financial institutions can be impeded by being overregulated. What are the key risk areas a company operating in an international environment faces?

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