Describe the financial leverage effect and its cause

Describe the financial leverage effect and what causes it? Explain the potential benefits and negative consequences of high financial leverage?
Financial leverage is the additional volatility of overall income caused through the presence of fixed-cost funds. The potential benefits are that if operating income is increasing net income will rise more quickly. The negative side is that if operating income is falling overall income will fall more rapidly, by including possibly negative values.

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