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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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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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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Agency Theory Agency theory is widely used in different companies‚ businesses and organizations Agency Theory is basically about the association between the boss‚ which is the Principal‚ and the worker‚ which is the Agent. A good example for an application of the Agency Theory would be sharecropping‚ where the Principal is the landowner and the Agent is the farmer. Another example for the Agency Theory in a more familiar organizational structure would be the relationship between a company’s shareholders
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Agency Theory Description Agency theory describes the relationship between principals (shareholders‚ investors and owners) and agents (management). Theoretical discussions in business and academia may be a modern phenomena‚ however the dynamics surrounding agency relationships have been around since the dawn of barter and exchange. Most business relationships are fundamentally agency relationships. In simplistic terms principals have interests and goals to which they have transferred the
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empowers a wide range of law enforcement agencies to maintain law and public order related to matters affecting the country as a whole. The Federal Law enforcement agencies are only authorized to enforce various laws generally only on a federal level. Majority of these agencies have broad federal enforcement powers‚ but most enforce only narrow portions of federal law. In some cases‚ they may be empowered to enforce state and local law as well. These agencies may generally have nationwide jurisdiction
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There are two types of employment agencies‚ recruiting and staffing. These can both be good tools to use in your job search. A recruiting service matches your skills with a permanent full time position. They are also called headhunters or executive search firms. Basically what they do is look for qualified candidates for different employers. Most of the time the employer pays the fee to the recruiting service and the recruiting service recommends you for the job if you are qualified. I guess this
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Agency theory relative to corporate governance assumes a two-tier form of firm control: managers and owners. Agency theory holds that there will be some friction and mistrust between these two groups. The basic structure of the corporation‚ therefore‚ is the web of contractual relations among different interest groups with a stake in the company. In general‚ there are three sets of interest groups within the firm. Managers‚ stockholders and creditors (such as banks). Stockholders often have conflicts
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