Políticas financeiras: estudo de propriedades métricas do duke special survey on corporate policy no Brasil

Abstract

This research assesses some of the metric properties of the questionnaire by Graham and Harvey (2001) in the Brazilian environment. In order to accomplish such objective, three different stages were executed: the translation, the data collection with financial executives, and the evaluation of some of the metric qualities of the instrument. From 1,699 questionnaires sent out, 160 returned and only 115 were considered valid. Methodologically, this research was mostly executed through the Internet by e-mail and the World Wide Web. Four dimensions, or subjects, in corporate financial policy were tested: Capital Budgeting, Cost of Capital, Capital Structure, and Corporate Governance. Factors referring to these dimensions were identified through exploratory factor analysis. The dimension Capital Budgeting was consolidated in a single factor. The dimensions Cost of Capital and Capital Structure were split in two factors each, named “Stock Returns History” (CC1) and “Environmental Conditions” (CC2) for Cost of Capit