Cost of Capital, Debt:Equity Balancing, and Max Allowed Debt

Let's say you're in need of $1000 for some requirement, and you need to take a loan for the same. You approach various banks and you boil down to two banks: Bank A is ready to give you a maximum loan of $300 at 3% interest and Bank B is ready to give you a …

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Whether to Expense or Capitalize An Expenditure

A capitalized cost is an expense that is added to the cost basis a fixed asset on a company's balance sheet. Capitalized costs are incurred when building or financing fixed assets. Capitalized costs are not expensed in the period they were incurred but recognized over a period of time via depreciation or amortization. A fixed …

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Online booksellers in India, Flipkart leading the way

Flipkart is an ecommerce website which sells books in India. It was setup in Sept 2007 and it has over 400,000 titles with a whopping 5 million monthly uniques, and a new round of cash from Accel in the bank. If you are an avid book reader there is a good chance that you have …

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