ACCA Paper P1 Professional accountant Essential text British library cataloguinginpublication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Published by: Kaplan Publishing UK Unit 2 The Business Centre Molly Millars Lane Wokingham Berkshire RG41 2QZ ISBN 9781847107558 © Kaplan Financial Limited‚ 2009 The text in this material and any others made available by any Kaplan Group company does not amount to advice o
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the incentive effects dominate the agency problems in determining the cost of capital. Well-designed executive compensation can mitigate both agency problems. 1. Introduction The principal-agent relationship has several potential problems in corporate management that so-called agency problems. Due to the conflict of interests between shareholders and managers‚ shareholders need to pay substantial costs to alleviate these problems‚ such as monitoring costs or handsome executive compensation to
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insurance companies. Although there are many side benefits of pursuing such growth strategy like dispersion of the entrepreneurs’ financial risk and gains from the specialised human capital of managers‚ there remains a significant problem: the principle-agent problem. While this problem is largely believed to be a phenomena belonging to transition economies‚ it concerns all economies as it directly affects access to capital hence the performance of businesses. The UK‚ US‚ Germany and Japan demonstrate some
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1. Agency Problems of MNCs. a. Explain the agency problem of MNCs. ANSWER: The agency problem reflects a conflict of interests between decision-making managers and the owners of the MNC. Agency costs occur in an effort to assure that managers act in the best interest of the owners. b. Why might agency costs be larger for an MNC than for a purely domestic firm? ANSWER: The agency costs are normally larger for MNCs than purely domestic firms for the following reasons
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International Research Journal of Finance and Economics ISSN 1450-2887 Issue 80 (2011) © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2011 http://www.internationalresearchjournaloffinanceandeconomics.com An Empirical Study on the Determinants of Dividend Policy in the UK Badar Khalid Al Shabibi Faculty‚ Accounting & Finance‚ Department of Business Studies Ibra College of Technology‚ Sultanate of Oman E-mail: baderkh14@hotmail.com Tel: +968-95142254; Fax: +968-25587950 G Ramesh Faculty‚ Accounting & Finance
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mechanisms minimize these costs/problems? Are executive compensation contracts effective in mitigating these costs/problems? Our textbook defines an agency problem as a “conflict between the goals of a firm’s owners and its managers” (Megginson & Smart‚ 2009). It then defines agency costs as dollar costs that arise because of this conflict. In the corporate structure‚ stockholders are the owners of the firm‚ and they elect a board of directors to oversee the firm and help protect their investment. The
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Regulation is defined as a set of rules that is designed to control and govern conduct by authority (Deegan 2009‚ p.59). On the basis of this definition‚ Deegan (2009‚ p.59) has defined regulations relating to financial accounting as rules that are developed by independent authoritative body to govern the preparation of financial statements which are accounting standards. Since decades ago‚ there have been arguments for and against the existence of accounting regulations. With a stance of pro-regulation
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Dividend Policy: Clientele Effects and Signalling Model Literature Review Sharon Theresia 17132233 Corporate Finance 307 Singapore Campus Abstract Two of the most influential dividend policies are being reviewed and compared. in this paper‚ clientele effects and signalling model are two chosen policies. Findings implied that clientele is shaped by tax preferences of shareholders which in the end will determine companies’ ideal dividend policies. It is also believed that amount of paid dividend
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Topic︰Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market — Is it a crash to the ICAC？ Introduction Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been a model for emulation throughout the world. When people studying the corruption problem of Hong Kong in 1960s and 1970s‚ most of them will study the Godber case. Few of them will discuss about the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market. In the 1970s‚ ICAC’s investigation into the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market met with a debilitating strong reaction
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INTRODUCTION In early July 2007‚ the New York based hedge fund Perry Capital proposed to raise its stake in NEC Electronics Corporation (NECE)‚ the then publicly listed subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate‚ NEC Corporation‚ from 4.8 percent to 25 percent. The offering was ¥5‚000 a share‚ at about 60 percent premium. Perry’s investment in NECE traced back to late 2005‚ the year its first exposure to Asian markets‚ with the initial investment cost at around ¥3‚200 a share. Perry believed the intrinsic
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