Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Faculty of Economics, Management & Accounting, Department of Accounting & Financial, Yazd University, Iran
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MSc, Financial Branch of Business Management,Yazd University, Iran
Abstract
Today, Regarding to competitiveness of markets, optimized arrangements of sources is a vital and non-avoidable for retaining the situation and improvement of the organization, in order to maximizing desirability in its life cycle, companies adopt different policies. In this study, the relationship between life cycle and capital structure and other factors related to capital structure (profitability, liquidity, visible estate, the company size, Age, non debt tax shields, and growth opportunity) were studied. For achieving this goal, proposed by 8 theories, in this research 114 companies and in other words 570 years-companies were studies as sample from 2009 to 2013. Panel data method is used because of the kind of research data, and two regression methods were used for studying research variables relationship with capital structure. In the first model LCSR and in the second one, RE/TA (as life cycle representative) measured to capital structure. For ranking companies, Park & Chen methodology has been used. The study hypotheses have been examined, using Stata11. Results show that there is a meaningful relationship between life cycle stages rank, retained profit to total assets, visible estate, profitability and capital structure, according to these two models. Lifetime variable has no meaningful relationship with capital structure. And, there is a vague relationship between size, growth opportunity, and non debt tax shields with capital structure. This means that these variables are meaningful in one model but meaningless in the other. Then, we can not talk about meaningfulness or meaninglessness of these variables with certainty.
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