1. DIFFERENT BETWEEN OPERATING LEVERAGE AND FINANCIAL LEVERAGE
1. Financial leverage is associated with financing activities of the company.
2. Financial leverage consists of operating profit of the company.
3. It represents the relationship between EBIT and EPS.
4. Financial leverage can be calculated by FL= EBIT/EBIT-C
5. A percentage change in taxable profit is the result of percentage change in EBIT.
6. Trading on equity is possible only when the company uses financial leverage.
7. Financial leverage depends upon the operating profits.
8. Financial leverage will change due to tax rate and interest rate.
1-Operating leverage is associated with investment activities of the company.
2. Operating leverage consists of fixed operating expenses of the company.
3. It represents the ability to use fixed operating cost.
4. Operating leverage can be calculated by DOL=C/OP
5. A percentage change in the profits resulting from a percentage change in the sales is called as degree of operating leverage.
6. Trading on equity is not possible while the company is operating leverage.
7. Operating leverage depends upon fixed cost and variable cost.
8. Tax rate and interest rate will not affect the operating leverage.

2. COMBINED LEVERAGE
When the company uses both financial and operating leverage to magnification of any
change in sales into a larger relative changes in earning per share.
Combined leverage is also called as composite leverage or total leverage.
Combined leverage express the relationship between the revenue in the account of sales and the taxable income.
Combined leverage can be calculated with the help of the following formulas:
DCL = DOL × DFL

3. COMBINED LEVERAGE Selling price per unit= $2.5
DCL = Q(P-VC) × Q(P-VC)- FC
Q(P-VC)- FC Q(P-VC)-FC –C
DCL = Q(P-VC)
Q(P-VC) – FC-C
Example :
Sales in units =
Selling price per unit= $2.5
Variable cost per unit = $1.8
Fixed cost = 42000
Debenture (interest at 10%) =$180000
Profit of preferred share capital =$6000
the company is in 25% tax.
Required : compute the following
1 - break-even point in units and dollars.
2- DOL DFL DCL

4. DCL Solution: break-even point in units = Fixed cost = 42000 60000
(P-VC) ( )
break-even point in dollars = × 2.5 = $
2- DOL = Q(P-VC) =250000( ) =
Q(P –VC) –FC ( )
3- DFL = Q×( P-VC) –FC = ( )
Q×( P-VC) –FC – C ( ) (6000÷(1-%25))
DFL = 1.242
DCL = Q(P-VC) = (
Q(P-VC) – FC-C ( ) –(6000÷(1-%25)) = OR
DCL = DOL × DFL = × =1.633

5. Exercise
Kumar company has sales of $. 2,500,000. Variable cost of $ 1,500,000 and fixed cost of $. 500,000 and debt of $. 12,50,000 at 8% rate of interest. Calculate combined leverage.
Solution
Combined leverage =Operating leverage× Financial leverage
DOL = ( ) ÷ ( )
= 2
DFL = ( ) ÷( ) =1.25
DCL = 2 × 1.25 = 2.5

6. Uses Combined leverage to predict EBIT
We can use combined leverage to predict earning before interest and tax EBIT, and earning per share EPS.
Expected EBIT = (1+(DCL×%S)) ×Actual EBIT
Expected EPS = (1+(DCL×%S)) ×Actual EPS
Example:
Suppose that the actual sales for company x equal $ and the expected sales in the coming year= $ , and DOL = 2.4, DFL =1.6
Actual EBIT = %25 from net sales .
Compute the expected EBIT.

7. % S = ( )/ = %8
Actual EBIT = %25 × = $
DCL =DOL × DFL = 2.4 ×1.6 = 3.84
Expected EBIT = (1+(DCL×%S)) ×Actual EBIT
Expected EBIT = (1+ (3.84×%8 ) × =
Example :
the expected sales is decrease %5
DCL = 4 , and the actual EPS = 3.5
Compute the expected EPS
. Expected EPS = (1+(DCL×%S)) ×Actual EPS
Expected EPS = ( 1+ (4× - 5%)) × 3.5 = 2.8