The Cost of Equity Increases with Increasing Financial Leverage in Order

question 35

True/False

The cost of equity increases with increasing financial leverage in order to compensate the stockholders for the higher degree of financial risk.

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Definitions:

Cost of Goods Sold

Expenses directly linked to the creation of goods sold by a business, such as materials and labor.

Inventory Units

The individual items or quantifiable segments of products that a business holds in its inventory, each possibly having a different value or cost basis.

Perpetual LIFO

Perpetual Last-In-First-Out is an inventory cost method assuming that the last items added to inventory are the first sold, continually updating inventory and cost of goods sold values.

Ending Inventory

The overall price of items available for selling at the end of a fiscal period.