“…Given the importance of debt for companies, researchers have sought to identify the factors that influence the cost of debt financing (Ghouma, 2017). However, despite the investigation of factors being an increasingly developed topic and published in international journals, in national literature, as pointed out by Fernandes (2013), Guimarães (2016), Konraht, Camargo, and Vicente (2016), Moura, Macêdo, Mazzioni, and Kruger (2016), Palmieri and Ambrozini (2016) and Peixoto, Pains, Araújo, and Guimarães (2016), and, gaps still exist, given that the number of studies and the evidences on the subject, are still reduced.…”