BACKGROUND OF STUDY The owner or shareholder of any business expect their investment to earn a return that reward is expected to be commensurate with the perceived riskiness of the investment. There are many alternative vehicles for the investment of capital‚ so a particular investment often be said to carry an opportunity cost. This is the difference between the actual return forgone from the alternative investment‚ olowe (1997) noted that the maximization of shareholders wealth is the most superior of all
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Corporate Social Responsibility versus Profit Maximization Introduction Nowadays‚ many large multinational corporations which occupy increasing shares in the market and high statues in the society are usually powerful in having both positive and negative effects on the public to a great extent. As a consequence‚ today‚ the concept of Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) draws much more public attention. Social responsibility goes beyond profit making and social obligation. CSR is a business
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Background Agricultural industry is one of the most important industries of Uzbekistan. Agriculture sector employs 28% of Uzbekistan ’s labor force and generates 24% of its GDP (Uzreport‚ 2006). Therefore further development of agricultural industry in Uzbekistan is crucial for Uzbek nation. According to UNDP within the next 20 years‚ the world will gain another 1.4 billion people. Representing a 25-percent increase in global population‚ most of these people will live in the expanding urban centers
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Revenue and sales maximization Revenue maximization Maximizing sales revenue is an alternative to profit maximization and occurs when the marginal revenue‚ MR‚ from selling an extra unit is zero. The notion that business firms (especially those operating in the real world) are primarily motivated by the desire to achieve the greatest possible level of sales‚ rather than profit maximization. On a day-to-day basis‚ most real world firms probably do try to maximize sales rather than profit. For firms operating
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where its businesses are located. Tyco has taken a more aggressive approach by multiple acquisitions. These types of companies are called conglomerates. For the purpose of this paper the common shareholder’s equity‚ market capitalization and net profit margins for the last five years will be discussed. General Electric has been contributing to our country and culture in one way or another since the beginning of the last century. The company was originally named the Edison General Electric
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Lecture Notes on Short-Run Producer Theory and Profit Maximization Lalith Munasinghe Production Functions We begin with a few definitions. Firm: An organization that turns inputs into outputs. Production Function (PF): The mathematical relationship between inputs and outputs. The PF is a technical relationship that specifies how much output can be produced from any possible combination of inputs. Example: an automobile is an output made from a complex combination of a variety of inputs
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We will now examine the problem of determining price and output levels in alternative market structures. Market structures are categorized in terms of number of firms or the number of sellers present in the market and whether we are considering a homogeneous or differentiable commodity. We will consider four types of market structures: 1. Pure Competition 2. Pure Monopoly 3. Monopolistic Competition 4. Oligopoly Market classifications from the buyer’s angle are‚ 1. Pure Competition
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ISSN 1045-6333 THE SHAREHOLDER WEALTH MAXIMIZATION NORM AND INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Mark J. Roe Discussion Paper No. 339 11/2001 Harvard Law School Cambridge‚ MA 02138 The Center for Law‚ Economics‚ and Business is supported by a grant from the John M. Olin Foundation. This paper can be downloaded without charge from: The Harvard John M. Olin Discussion Paper Series: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/ SHAREHOLDER WEALTH MAXIMIZATION JEL Class: D42‚ G32
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CHALLENGES FACING NIGERIAN DISCOUNT HOUSES IN THE MEDIUM TO LONG TERM ABSTRACT The paper traced the emergence of discount houses to the need for an institutional arrangement for the facilitation of the trading in short-term securities at both the primary and secondary segments of the money market. The British example was seen as the model with countries under the British influence including Ghana‚ Zimbabwe‚ and Nigeria adopting the system to deepen‚ the money market. The discount house operations
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the maximisation of shareholder wealth”. This essay will examine how finance managers in day to day practice can participate in the aid of increasing maximum shareholder wealth. The focus point of this is based on the financial managers themselves‚ how they can manipulate and change things in order to increase shareholder wealth using certain tools and methods of analysis. Shareholders are deemed as the owners of the business. Their main aim is to increase their wealth‚ finance managers are
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