Hi!

It seems you are mixing up a lot of things here (capex vs. cost of capital vs opex vs. debt etc.). I believe it is almost impossible to answer your question in a succinct way, since you seem to still need to understand the basic principles of accounting. Maybe have a short look at the below article, this should clear up the basics I hope. Sorry for the short answer, but disentangling the problematic premises of your question would mean a huge amount of text. Hope it still helps.

Cheers, Sidi

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/AccPrimer/accstate.htm

Hi A,

What case are you talking about?

Could you please attach it for more clarity?

Best,

André

Hello,

Could you paste the case this relates to? Im curious to see the application.

For the definitions, +1 to what my colleagues commented.

Cheers,

Clara

Hi,

I agree with the others, you need to review some basic accounting!

Capex is the $ spent to build/acquire + maintain assets

Opex is the ongoing cost of running a product, business, or system

Interest rates on loans are essentially your cost of capital, and have intrinsic annual costs.

Furthemore, the way in which you reduce capex and opex totally depends on the industry and firm in question! We could close a few factories, renegotiate with suppliers, cut our labor force, pay out people less, etc. etc. (there are almost infinite options). We require much more context.