Question

Why should firms with promising investment opportunities strive to maintain a conservative capital structure, i.e., limited leverage? Why do you think many promising small businesses apparently do not follow this recommendation and are heavily indebted?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is to assure funding for future assets.

The answer is because of lack of sufficient operating cash flow.

Explanation:

Companies with promising investments opportunity typically have valuable intangible assets whose value would decline sharply if the company would go into financial difficulty, its important for such company to maintain a financial flexibility that comes with a conservative capital structure to assure funding for future assets.

   Poor cash flow is when the income cash flow is insufficient to meet the outgoing cash flow needs of a business and this can also lead to inability to raise additional equity force.