Based on your understanding of the trade-off theory, what kind of firms are likely to use more leverage? Firms with volatile earnings Firms with stable earnings Based on your understanding of the capital structure theories, identify the best option for the missing part of the statement. According to signalling theory, a firm with a very positive outlook might tend to use debt financing???? the normal target capital structure. Beyond Equal to A leveraged buyout (LBO) helps the firm ???? both its excess cash flows and managers' temptation to incur wasteful expenses Reduce Increase Under the pecking-order hypothesis, a firm will raise capital by using its net income, selling its marketable securities, issuing debt, and then issuing stock as the last resort. This statement is ???? True False Several dominant theories try to explain why financial managers make the capital structure decisions that they do. The following statement describes one such theory. Consider this case: Firms prefer internal funds, but if forced to raise external capital, they prefer debt rather than equity issuance. Identify which of the two theories is described by the statement. Trade-off theory Pecking-order hypothesis