1.What is the goal of the capital structure decision? What is the financial manager trying to do?

2.How do corporate income taxes modify MM's leverage irrelevance proposition?

3.What's the pecking order theory?

4.What can be promised by loan covenants? What cannot be ensured by loan covenants?

5.Compare and contrast share repurchases with dividend payouts.

6.How are dividends paid and how do companies decide on dividend payments?