Agency costs arise when conflicts of interest occur among stakeholders and must be paid out to an agent acting on behalf of a principal. According to Peavler (2013)‚ “There is an agency cost that exists in every business that has owners or shareholders and managers who are not necessarily owners. Agency cost means that shareholders and business managers may not necessarily agree on the actions that are best for the business firm and that there is an inherent cost to that disagreement. That leads
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Q: Is depreciation expense or depreciation cost is fixed cost or variable cost in nature? Fixed costs: Fixed costs are such costs that do not change with the change in activity level within the relevant range. Where relevant range can be defined in terms of time or activity level. Variable costs: Variable costs are such costs that change with the change in activity level . Coming to the question‚ depreciation expense or depreciation cost can either be fixed or variable and this depends on the
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There are specific differences between direct finance and indirect finance. There are six main functions of financial intermediaries and they are: * Size transformation can only be made by financial intermediaries‚ savers/depositors are prepared to lend smaller amounts of money than the amounts required by borrowers. Banks perform the size transformation function exploiting economies of scale associated with the lending/borrowing function. * Maturity transformation which is that savers generally
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to cost about $400 billion. According to Zubrin’s 1990 estimate" (Mars Direct)‚ today the projected cost is around US$ 10-22 billion. The race to Mars has begun‚ with this race extending father than government agencies like NASA. The Mars race has even become privatized‚ with companies like Mars One and Space X designing ways to hopefully reach Mars first. The mission to Mars and the first stages to colonize Mars will be very costly‚ keeping that in mind what are the economic factors of going to
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Journals Review Jstore.org Journal Review #1 Accounting Measures of Corporate Liquidity‚ leverage and costs of financial distress. Teresa a john Synopsis: When the cost of financial distress is high in a firm that firm may maintain a large amount of its total asset as liquid asset and be careful on taking debt. This journal has talked about the relation on the financial distress the cost of corporate liquid policy and the leverage policy of the firm. Liquid asset constitute a significant portion
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Financial distress‚ reorganization and bankruptcy You are required to explore‚ study and investigate the issues of financial distress‚ reorganization and bankruptcy of firms around the world‚ in particularly Malaysia and examined the factors that may have caused this phenomenon. Search for journal articles (at least 10) that are related to these topics and provide your comments and opinions in your write-up‚ not more than 10 pages. Financial distress can be defined as situation in which a company
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1: (Systems) 1.1. Explain the main principles of costing and business control systems. Managing financial resources is one of the key parts of remaining competitive and delivering sound and healthy service. It is therefore important that any health and social care organisation to understand the principles of managing financial resources as any other organisation. At ABI Health and Social Care the main principle of costing and business control systems are: Capital Cost this is physical items
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30) 1. Company A’s costs are mostly variable‚ whereas Company B’s costs are mostly fixed. When sales increase‚ which company will tend to realize the greatest increase in profits? Explain. 2. Crystal Telecom has budgeted the sales of its innovative mobile phone over the next four months as follows: Sales in Units July. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30‚000 August . . . . . . . . . . . 45‚000 September . . . . . . . . 60‚000 October . . . . . . . . . . 50‚000 The company is now in the
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Going Green Cost Effectiveness Trina L. Munson South University Online Going Green Cost Effectiveness Americans are very aware of the importance of “going green” as it reduces pollution and protects the earth from global warming. Going green generally includes recycling‚ buying environmentally-friendly products‚ energy efficient electronics‚ and living off the land. However‚ the reality is there are many obstacles to going green; the primary of which is cost effectiveness (Outka‚ 2012)
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Question 5.1 Explain the difference between fixed costs‚ semi-fixed costs‚ and variable costs. Fixed costs are those which do not change with the level of activity within the relevant range. These costs will incur even if no units are produced. For example rent expense‚ straight-line depreciation expense‚ etc. Fixed costs are those which do not change with the level of activity within the relevant range. These costs will incur even if no units are produced. For example rent expense‚ straight-line
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