This document summarizes a study analyzing the financing patterns of 300 Indian private sector companies over 1999-2008. It finds that companies on average obtain 60.54% of total funds from internal sources and 39.46% from external sources. The average debt-equity ratio was 1.12, with small companies relying more on debt than large companies. Manufacturing companies had significantly higher debt-equity ratios than service sector companies. Overall, the study concludes that while Indian companies prefer internal funds to external ones, their debt-dominated capital structures expose them to high total risk.