Funds acquired by the firm through retaining earnings have no cost because there are no dividend or interest payments associated with them, and no flotation costs are required to raise them, but capital raised by selling new stock or bonds does have a cost.

This statement is correct

Explanation:

Normally there are 2 major ways a company can generate money; internally by generating profits and externally by selling shares or borrowing from a bank.

When the firm generates its own money by making profits, it does not have to pay anybody any interest or dividend but when the money is gotten from outside the organisation, then dividends have to be paid to shareholders or interest has to be paid to the bank.