We find support for one statement related to agency cost explanations for cash holdings: managers prefer
larger cash balances to provide more discretion in their firm's spending and capital expenditure decisions (S4).
About 45% of the respondents agree or strongly agree with this statement; the mean is positive and differs
significantly from undecided (0) at the 0.05 level. Thus, despite theoretical arguments supporting agency cost
explanations, our findings tend to show that managers do not believe that agency costs affect cash holdings of
large, US firms. This result is consistent with the findings of Kim et al. (1998) and Opler et al. (1999) and for
samples including only US firms.