The Higher the Firm's Flotation Cost for New Common Equity

question 36

True/False

The higher the firm's flotation cost for new common equity, the more likely the firm is to use preferred stock, which has no flotation cost, and reinvested earnings, whose cost is the average return on the assets that are acquired.

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