Answer(1): Advantage of having no long term debt:
Disadvantage- If company raises funds through debt, it can expand and grow in future by setting up more business, interest on debt is the deductible expenditure from income tax point of view, that benefit company will not be able to avail.
Answer(2): Advantage of having large cash balance-
Disadvantage of having large cash balance- Large cash balance if lying idle, it is not good, it is not productive, it should be invested into some source so that some return can come. Business will not grow much.
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