Berk/DeMarzo • Corporate Finance, Fourth Edition, Global Edition 103
• Sinking Funds (Slides 70–72)
II. Learning Objectives
24-1 Identify typical sources of debt for corporations.
24-3 Define the following terms: notes, debentures, mortgage bonds, and asset-backed bonds.
Identify which of these are secured and which are senior.
24-5 Define term loan and private placement, and contrast the two forms of private debt.
24-7 Identify the characteristics of municipal bonds.
24-9 Define the following bond terminology: covenants, call provision, callable bond, yield to call,
sinking fund, and convertible bonds.
III. Chapter Overview
The chapter covers corporate as well as government debt instruments. The example of Hertz’s LBO
illustrates how corporations use debt markets to raise capital. The chapter defines bond terminology.
24.1 Corporate Debt
In 2005, Hertz was bought out by CDR in an LBO. Table 24.1 shows the debt portion of the deal.
Table 24.3 shows the details of Hertz’s junk bond issues. One of those issues is a euro-
24.2 Other Types of Debt
Sovereign debt is introduced first, with a focus on the four types of U.S. Treasury securities. Example
24.1 shows the computation of the coupon on a Treasury Inflation-Protected Security (TIPS). The
24.3 Bond Covenants
This section gives a description of bond covenants, including those of Hertz’s junk bond issue. Those