THE NATURE OF AGENCY RELATIONSHIP The need to appoint another person to perform one act or another on one’s behalf assumes greater proportion daily. This is so because of the rapid economic developments that has taken place in the recent years. A party may want to do many things but because of lack of time or expertise‚ he is compelled to appoint another person to act on his behalf and whatever that other person does will be binding on him. The question is: ‘Who is an agent?’ An agent is one who
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the second wave in the positive theory of accounting‚ focuses among other things on agency theory. What is agency theory? Elaborate the components of agency costs as described by Jensen & Meckling (1976). Answer: Agency theory is based upon the more general contracting theory that the most cost effective form of organizing economic activity is through a firm based structure. Jensen & Meckling describe agency theory is a contract under one party (the principle) engages another party (agent)
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Unfair Dismissal of Agency Workers or Unfair Legislation in the UK for Businesses using Agency Workers? Abstract The contribution encapsulates a legal discussion on the controversial figure of the agency workers‚ from the judicial debate blossomed during the last decade in the British courts‚ as regards their legal characterization‚ until the most recent developments‚ particularly the legislative framework passed in Britain‚ the Agency Workers Regulations. On such footings‚ the investigation focuses
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Methodology 1 Background to Travel Agencies 1 Definition 1 Context – The background of Travel Agents 1 Types of travel agents 2 Data collection 2 Literature review 2 Analysis of the data collection 3 Strengths 3 Weaknesses 4 Opportunities 5 Threats 5 Suggestions/Recommendations 7 Conclusion 8 References 10 Introduction Aim This report hopes to examine the impact of online booking websites on traditional High Street travel agencies. It was decided to research this subject
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Seattle area. The service industry‚ including travel agencies‚ is one of the fastest growing business sectors of the economy‚ and Northwind Traders intends to capitalize on the success of this industry by taking advantage of travel planning opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. President Heather Mitchell and Vice President of Sales and Marketing Jim Kim currently hold the company’s stock. Prior to starting the Northwind Traders travel agency‚ Ms.
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intension to be used for a particular time frame but many are short lived due to factors such as being ineffective or competition in the market place. ADVERTISING AGENCY An advertising agency is an agency that designs advertisement to call public attention to its clients. | | Following are the departments in an advertising agency:- 1. ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENTIts first function is strategy planning and research. Interpretation of consumers (Target Audience) and advertisement research from the brand’s
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QUESTION: Explain what agency of necessity is and how it may arise. AUTHOR: KATALILO JOY INTRODUCTION This paper will explain what agency of necessity is and how this agency arises. Agency is the work done by an agent. An agent is a person that has a contractual obligation with a principal to bind the principal to a third party without the agent being party to the contract. The contract then becomes one between the principal and the third party. In lay terms‚ imagine parties A‚ B and
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Objective of study The objective is to investigate how principle-principle agency conflicts impact on the quality and effectiveness of corporate governance in European listed companies. Motivation for study Most of corporate governance research only reveals that corporate governance can solute the agency conflicts between management and shareholders which fails to identify principle-principle agency conflicts and their influences on corporate governance. Research question Whether
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THE AGENCY FOR ACCREDITATION The accreditation of curricular programs in the Philippines‚ particularly for state universities and colleges‚ is the main function of the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP)‚ Inc. Organized in 1987‚ though officially registered and recognized under the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 4‚ 1989‚ it is the youngest of the four (4) accrediting agencies in the country until late 2003. Under its charter
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employee-to-sales ratios and tells restaurants to cut staffing when the sales have dropped below a certain range at any hour. This has agency problem written all over it. Maybe not so much along the lines of managers acting for the best interest of shareholders but definitely managers acting in their own interests and not in the employee’s best interests. This agency problem is arising from the
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