Firms resources on things like lavish office furnishings

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Sometimes, the management of a corporation will waste a firm’s resources on things like lavish office furnishings and a corporate jet. Is this behavior more likely to occur when the firm is 100% equity financed or when it has some debt in its capital structure? Why.

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