{"id":105314,"date":"2021-02-01T13:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T08:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?page_id=105314"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:58:31","slug":"impact-of-financial-leverage-on-investors-rate-of-return","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/impact-of-financial-leverage-on-investors-rate-of-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Financial Leverage on Investor\u2019s Rate of Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can see with the help of a simple example, how financial leverage affects return on equity. A company needs a capital of Rs.10,000\/- to operate. The shareholders of the company may bring in this money. Alternatively, a part of this money may also be brought in through debt financing. If the management raises Rs.10,000\/- from shareholders, the company is not financially leverages and would have the following balance sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image-113.jpg\" alt=\"Image 113\" class=\"wp-image-40531\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The company commences operations, which leads to the preparation of the following simplified version of its income statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image-114.jpg\" alt=\"Image 114\" class=\"wp-image-40532\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the return the company has earned on the owner\u2019s investment? You will see that the return on equity is 15%. The net profit of Rs.1,500\/- may be paid fully or partly to the shareholders as dividends or may be retained to finance future actives of the company. Either way the return on equity is 15%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens to the owner\u2019s rate of return if the management decides to finance a part of the required total investment of Rs.10,000\/- through debt financing? The answer to this question depends upon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The proportion of total investment which the management decides to finance through debt (Debt Equity Ratio the firm aspires to) and<\/li><li>The interest rate on borrowed funds<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If the management has decided on a Debt Equity Ratio of 2 : 1, total borrowings will be amounting to Rs.10,000 X 2 = Rs.6,667\/-. Assuming that the company is able to raise this amount at an interest of 15%, the company\u2019s balance sheet will appear as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image-115.jpg\" alt=\"Image 115\" class=\"wp-image-40533\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The company now has an added financial burden of payment of interest on the amount it has borrowed. The income statement will now be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Image-116.jpg\" alt=\"Image 116\" class=\"wp-image-40534\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The use of debt in the company\u2019s capital structure has caused<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the net profit to decline from Rs.1,500\/- to Rs.1,000\/-. But has the return on owner\u2019s capital decline? Return on equity now works out to 30%, as the owners have invested only Rs.3, 333\/-now which earned them Rs.1,000. What were the factors, which contributed to this additional return?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the company has to pay interest at 15% on the borrowed capital, the company\u2019s operations have been able to generate more than 15%, which is being transferred to the owners. The reduction in PBT has brought about a reduction in the amount of tax paid, as interest is a tax deductible expense, to the extent of interest (1 \u2013 tax rate) i.e., Rs.500\/-. The greater the tax rate, the more is the tax shield available to a company, which is financially leveraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you have seen in the above example, a company may increase the return on equity by the use of debt i.e., the use of financial leverage. 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