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Chapter 17, Problem 1P
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To discuss: The ways to spend the firm’s free cash flow.

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Share repurchase is an alternative method to pay the cash to the company’s investors through a way of buy back of shares or shares repurchase. Distribution of portion of earnings by the company to its shareholders is termed as dividends.

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The firm satisfies its entire interest obligation.

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The firm can use its free cash flow for further investments or it can retain them for further purposes or the firm can just hold them in mode of cash. The other option is that it can distribute the cash to its equity holders in a way of issuing the dividends or through shares repurchase.

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Corporate Finance Plus MyLab Finance with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (4th Edition) (Berk, DeMarzo & Harford, The Corporate Finance Series)

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