Agency Problems‚ Auditing‚ and the Theory of the Firm: Some Evidence Author(s): Ross L. Watts and Jerold L. Zimmerman Source: Journal of Law and Economics‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 3‚ (Oct.‚ 1983)‚ pp. 613-633 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/725039 Accessed: 29/06/2008 23:14 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and
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Different mechanisms are used in order to reduce and to limit the agency costs. In fact‚ firms use individual mechanisms to control agency problems that are unique to those individual firms. These plans are often substitutable and same mechanisms may provide different incentives. The efficiency depends on the firm’s characteristics and the selection of the appropriate portfolio. If I was a CEO I will create same changes: Stock Ownership Managerial ownership of a firm’s stock helps align the
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1 The Fundamental Agency Problem and Its Mitigation: Independence‚ Equity‚ and the Market for Corporate Control DAN R. DALTON Kelley School of Business‚ Indiana University MICHAELA. HITT Mays College of Business‚ Texas A&M University S. TREVIS CERTO Mays College of Business‚ Texas A&M University CATHERINE M. DALTON Kelley School of Business‚ Indiana University Abstract A central tenet of agency theory is that there is potential for mischief when the interests of owners and
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Ch 10: 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 7; Ch 14: 4 3. Jersey mining earns $9.50 a share‚ sells for $90‚ and pays a $6 per share dividend? The stock is split two for one and a $3 per share cash dividend is declared. (a) What will be the new price of the stock? New Price: $90/2 = $45 (b) If the firm total earning do not change‚ what is the payout ratio before and after the stock split? Before: $6/9.50 = 63.16% After: $3/4.75 = 63.16% 4. Firm A had the following selected items on its balance sheet: Cash: 28‚000‚000
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1. An agency problem is prone to exist in public corporations because: E. management is frequently separated from ownership.2. Larson‚ Inc. has total assets of $248‚000 and an equity multiplier of 2.5. What is the debt-equity ratio? E. 1.5 3. Kate wants to invest $1‚000 for five years. Which one of the following will provide her with the largest future value? B. 7 percent interest‚ compounded monthly 5. Hilltop‚ Inc. earns $.12 in profit on every $1 of sales. The firm pays out 55 percent of its profits
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* Organizational structure + Principal*-Agent problem Principal-Agent Problem There is separation between ownership & control in most of the firm that we see today. As owners‚ shareholders appoint managers to make decisions for the company. There is another term to describe relationship between them. Shareholders are the PRINCIPAL that appoints the manager (AGENT) to act on the shareholders’ behalf so that profit can be maximize. E.g. Patient-Doctor Managers-Employees
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I choose two important problems facing European Union nowadays‚ the first one is the integration of the Turkey‚ which wait to integrate the European Union since 1963. The second one is the constraints of the euro today‚ which increase the economic power of the euro zone‚ However‚ it weakens its influence. Turkey‚ a candidate who is being debated Turkey is a country waiting to integrate the European Union‚ having filed his candidacy in 1963. This one was formalized after the return of democracy
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How does Austen represent women’s agency in Emma? The term ‘agency’ is used to signify the ‘ability or capacity to act or exert power’ (Oxford English Dictionary‚ 2013) therefore when referring to ‘women’s agency’‚ one implies the feminist philosophical idea of women’s capacity for independent choice and action. Jane Austen’s Emma was published in the early 19th Century (Whalan)‚ an era in which women had an especially rigid role in society that often confined them to the desires of men.
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Group Assignment #1: Problem Analysis of Cott Corporation Group Assignment #1 – Cott Corporation Summary Cott was found by a Montreal clothier‚ Harry Pencer in 1955. The company imported bottled and canned soft drink into Quebec from the US. After Harry Pencer’s death in 1983‚ his three sons‚ Samuel‚ Gerry‚ and Bill‚ inherited Cott. Once Gerry Pencer became CEO of Cott in 1988‚ he transformed Cott into the largest
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THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LXIV‚ NO. 4 • AUGUST 2009 Agency Problems at Dual-Class Companies RONALD W. MASULIS‚ CONG WANG‚ and FEI XIE∗ ABSTRACT Using a sample of U.S. dual-class companies‚ we examine how divergence between insider voting and cash f low rights affects managerial extraction of private benefits of control. We find that as this divergence widens‚ corporate cash holdings are worth less to outside shareholders‚ CEOs receive higher compensation‚ managers make shareholder value-destroying
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