Imagine that you are the newly hired CFO for a start-up company that is just beginning to grow. In your role, you must help educate the original leadership staff on the importance of good financial practices because they are from a different industry (software).

One of your tasks in this new role is to develop a capital structure for the company. Prepare a short PowerPoint presentation that explains the concept of the ideal capital structure to the rest of the company's leadership.

You may want to refer to the following articles:

• • Optimal Capital StructureLinks to an external site. (Hayes, 2019)
• • What is Capital Structure?Links to an external site. (Corporate Finance Institute, n.d.)

Requirements

• • Between 5-7 slides
• • professional appearance including theme and at least two images/graphics
• • non-technical explanation of the concept of ideal capital structure
• • include at least two references