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- Title
The Financial Implications of In-Substance Defeasance.
- Authors
Roden, Peyton Foster
- Abstract
In November 1983, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement No. 76, Extinguishment of Debt. The Statement permits corporations completing an in-substance defeasance to recognize an increase in earnings and earnings per share. High interest rates in 1984 and the Statement encouraged corporate managers to defease debt in substance and to show the associated increase in earnings per share. The financial impact contrasts with those of accounting. Although in-substance defeasance leads to an increase in reported earnings, financial theory suggests that it leads to a decrease in the price of the defeasing corporation's common stock by doing the following: decreasing the amount of future cash flows, decreasing corporate liquidity, redistributing wealth from common shareholders to bondholders, and decreasing the debt-equity ratio. Only the change in the debt-equity ratio may lead to an expected increase in stock price. The other three influences lead to an expected decrease.
- Subjects
ACCOUNTING standards; DEFEASANCE; CORPORATE debt; DEBT retirement; DEBT-to-equity ratio
- Publication
Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 1987, Vol 2, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0148-558X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0148558X8700200106