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Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?


A) When a firm fails to make a required payment to debt holders,it is in bankruptcy.
B) With perfect capital markets,the risk of bankruptcy is not a disadvantage of debt-bankruptcy simply shifts the ownership of the firm from equity holders to debt holders without changing the total value available to all investors.
C) Bankruptcy is a long and complicated process that imposes both direct and indirect costs on the firm and its investors that the assumption of perfect capital markets ignores.
D) Bankruptcy is rarely simple and straightforward-equity holders don't just "hand the keys" to debt holders the moment the firm defaults on a debt payment.

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