Intangible assets have been the increasingly dominant primary source of market value creation. This paper investigates the relationship between leverage and various intangibles related ratios. An empirical analysis is conducted to quantitatively understand the impact that these ratios have on leverage. The results show that intangible assets have a clear significant positive relationship with leverage. Accounting based principles are used to provide reasoning behind the results, which include the difference in impact that internally generated intangible assets and acquired intangibles have on leverage.

This thesis investigates the relation between capital structure and company value. The theoretical part of the thesis discusses different approaches to finding the optimal and most efficient capital structure for the company. Even though a broad theoretical basis related to the topic of capital structure exists, quantifying the theoretical background can lead to a variety of problems. Until now, no clear approach to optimizing the capital structure has been identified. In the practical part of the thesis, theoretical knowledge is applied on a real company COOP Jednota in Jindřichuv Hradec and an optimal capital structure is proposed.