INTRODUCTION: Financial reporting is the process of recording‚ evaluating and communicating financial information where as investment involved the allocation of resources to investment proposal whose benefit can be derived in future. Shareholders and investors are concerned with value of their investment and any income they expect to drive from shareholdings. Financial reports give them an account of how directors have handled resources given to them. The company Act specify directors’ emoluments
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A Difficult Decision By Latik Townsend-Espinal AIU Online For some time now‚ my husband and I have slowly been drifting apart. We have our good days and bad days (mostly bad). It wasn’t always this way. We use to be so close and always been able to read each other like we were connected mentally. But as time goes on things change and so do people. Sometimes change is for the best and sometimes change can make things worse than what they were. After ten years of being together‚ my husband
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Compare and Contrast Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards presented in recognition of cultural and scientific advances‚ in the categories of Physics‚ Chemistry‚ Literature‚ Peach‚ Physiology or Medicine and Economic Sciences (Nobel Media AB‚ 2013). In 2013‚ Robert Shiller‚ Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen were awarded the Nobel Prize for their outstanding contributions in Economics research and their work on explaining asset prices and how financial
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the distinction between pure and empirical knowledge? Can you give an example of each type of knowledge? “knowledge a priori‚” therefore‚ we shall in the sequel understand‚ not such as is independent of this or that kind of experience‚ but such as is absolutely so of all experience. “Empirical knowledge”‚ or that which is possible only a posteriori‚ that is‚ through experience. Knowledge a priori is either pure or impure. Pure knowledge a priori is that with which no empirical element is mixed
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Topic: DIVIDENDS 1. Payments made out of a firm ’s earnings to its owners in the form of cash or stock are called: A) Dividends. B) Distributions. C) Share repurchases. D) Payments-in-kind. E) Stock splits. Answer: A Topic: REGULAR CASH DIVIDENDS 2. A cash payment made by a firm to its owners in the normal course of business is called a: A) Share repurchase. B) Liquidating dividend. C) Regular cash dividend. D) Special dividend. E) Extra cash dividend. Answer:
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Do teenagers today make the smartest decisions? Or do teenagers today have the opportunity to make many of their own decisions? In comparison to past decades‚ children in this current society are making many of their decisions primarily on the basis that our society is more guarded and protective. Children very seldom run around the neighborhood freely and have random playmates. Everything is organized and scheduled allowing little freedom for kids to make their own mistakes. This mentality consequently
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DIVIDEND POLICY DETERMINANTS: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCES OF STAKEHOLDER THEORY by Mark E. Holder‚ Frederick W. Langrehr‚ J. Lawrence Hexter There is considerable debate on how dividend policy affects firm value. Some researchers believe that dividends increase shareholder wealth (Gordon‚ 1959)‚ others believe that dividends are irrelevant (Miller and Scholes‚ 1978)‚ and still others believe that dividends decrease shareholder wealth (Litzenberger and Ramaswamy‚ 1979). Financial management
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My paper will identify a group decision making experience. The existence for any organization to be successful it must have a group of participants wanting to attain the identical purpose. The successful example I like to use is the real world experience that happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis that nearly led the Nation into a nuclear war with the USSR. The movie‚ “The Missiles of October” (Page‚ 1974)‚ was a great illustration that challenged the group decision making process. When groups come
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future stock prices (See Graph 1). This conclusion is supported by Bhargava and Malhotra (2006) who showed that an increase in PE ratio brings about a decline in yields and inflated stock prices. Graph 1: Source: Anderson and Brooks (2006) An empirical study conducted by Basu (1977) concluded that portfolios formed with low PE ratio stocks outperformed portfolios formed by high PE stocks. This is confirmed by Graph 2 which shows that in the period from 1975 to 2003‚ low PE stocks have significantly
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Factors Affecting Individual’s Equity Investment Decision Acknowledgments "We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our Professor and guide Mr. Surya Dev for his guidance‚ valuable comments and support throughout this project. We would also like to thank Prof. (Dr.) C.K. Dash‚ for the valuable advice and support he has given us with motivation to do research on the topic. We appreciate all the help extended by him. Finally we would like to thank all the survey respondents for
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