COMPENSATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN KENYAN BANKING INDUSTRY Dr. Josiah Aduda‚ jaduda@uonbi.ac.ke‚ Lecturer and chairman‚ department of Finance and Accounting‚ School of Business‚ University of Nairobi‚ Kenya and Leonard Musyoka‚ University of Nairobi Abstract Economic theory of executive pay has focused on the design of optimal compensation schemes to align the interests of hired managers and shareholders. Agency theory has identified several factors by which these interests may
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Currency Derivatives problem: Scout Finch is the Chief Financial Officer [CFO] of Dayton Manufacturing‚ a U.S. based manufacturer of gas turbine equipment. She has just concluded negotiations for the sale of a turbine generator to Crown‚ a British firm for One million pounds. This single sale is quite large in relation to Dayton’s present business. Dayton has no other current foreign customers‚ so the currency risk of this sale is of particular concern. The sale is made in March with payment due three
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Assessment activity 1 1. Compare and contrast two appropriate techniques that could be used to investigate incidents. You do not have to limit your response to techniques discussed in the text. Which techniques would you favor? Why? Interviews and Inspections can be to investigate incidents. I favor inspections‚ as this is raw data from the incident scene which can be used to draw up scenarios and conclusions. 2. When using questioning techniques to investigate
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foreign investment capital is 972 millions USD. (See Appendix 1). The first place foreign investors come to seek the useful advice is Vietnamese Firms Consulting Foreign Investors (VFCFI). To meet the high demand a lot of Vietnamese Consulting Firms have been established lately. However‚ consultancy is a fresh field and the newly-established firms are facing abundant difficulties such as lack of experiences‚ do not understand market economy system‚ cross-cultural problems‚ etc. Among them‚ marketing
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE MBA - JKUAT ASSIGNMENT ONE. DISCUSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PARADIGM AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE SERVICE AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Provide reference INTRODUCTION The concept of Supply Chain Management is based on two broad ideas. The first is that practically all goods and services that reach an end user represent the cumulative effort of multiple organizations. These organizations are referred
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about making your shoes look good‚ which would be reason enough to take care of them. It’s also about preserving and adding to the life of your shoes. Whether you spend a lot on your shoes‚ or don’t have much to spend‚ taking care of your shoes makes sense. In the case of designer‚ or more expensive shoes‚ look at it as though you’re protecting your investment‚ or what could be a future collectible. And if you don’t have a lot to spend on shoes‚ keeping the ones you have in great shape will remove
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INTRODUCTION Business growth is a good goal for most firms in general and is given great weight by the society. This could be seen with the list conjured up by the media‚ such as ‘Forbes Fast-Growing Companies’ and ‘Inc Fastest Growing Companies’ lists (Hupato 2011). The reason small firm growth has been prioritised by policy makers and the society is mainly due to its contribution to the economy (Bridge‚ O’Neill & Martin 2009). Small firm and entrepreneurship have so often been linked together
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Course Title Business research methods Assignment Research proposal Ownership Concentration‚ Corporate Governance and firm Performance in Textile Sector of Pakistan Submitted to Dr.Yasir Kamal Submitted by Farhan Akbar Program Msc. Finance Semester 3rd Dated: 5th of May 2014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction...........................................................................................................3 2. Literature Review……………….……………………………………………………
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence for Chile Ana M. Fernandes a The World Bank Caroline Paunov b OECD March 2011 Journal of Development Economics forthcoming Abstract This paper examines the impact of substantial foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in producer service sectors on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Chilean manufacturing firms. Positive effects are obtained in firm fixed effects instrumental variables regressions and show
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following approaches that a business firm could use to gather information about competition. For each approach‚ mark your feeling about its appropriateness using the following scale: 1. definitely not appropriate‚ 2. probably not appropriate‚ 3. undecided‚ 4. probably appropriate‚ and 5. definitely appropriate The business firm should try to get useful information about competitors by: __5___ Careful study of trade journals Studying the competitors is the correct way that a company can compete with
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