Agency Costs and Financial Decision-Making The Concept An agency relationship is a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent. If both parties to the relationship are utility maximizers and they may have divergent goals and objectives‚ and there is good reason to believe that the agent will not always act in the best interests of the
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Current Issues IPL: Boon or Bane? IPL was started with much fanfare in 2008. It was regarded as the next big thing in cricket. Under the able guidance of Lalit Modi‚ it started off really well. It was inspired by the highly popular EPL (English Premier League). Since its inception‚ it has caught the eyes of players and viewers alike. It brought Bollywood and corporates under one roof. It resulted in a huge amount of money being poured into the game. Presence of Bollywood stars during matches raised
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Bridge Paper ™ Environment‚ Ethics‚ and Business Featuring a Thought Leader Commentary™ with Jan van Dokkum‚ President‚ UTC Power R. Edward Freeman Jeffrey G. York Lisa Stewart © 2008‚ Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics www.corporate-ethics.org Distribution Policy: Bridge Papers™ may only be displayed or distributed in electronic or print format for non-commercial educational use on a royaltyfree basis. Any royalty-free use of Bridge Papers™ must use the complete
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CONVERSATION: SUBTLE INFLUENCES ON MORAL DECISION MAKING BRIAN C. GUNIA Johns Hopkins University LONG WANG City University of Hong Kong LI HUANG INSEAD JIUNWEN WANG J. KEITH MURNIGHAN Northwestern University This research investigated the role of contemplation‚ conversation (conceptualized as social contemplation)‚ and explanation in right-wrong decisions. Several theories suggest that contemplation or morally oriented conversation will promote ethical decisions and that immediate choice or self-interested
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THE ROLE OF LEVERAGE IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS The United States of America is in the middle of the worst financial crisis in more than 75 years. To date‚ federal regulators and authorities have taken unprecedented steps to stop the complicated situation of the financial services sector by committing trillions of dollars of taxpayer funds to rescue financial institutions and restore order to credit markets. Although the current crisis has spread across a broad range of financial instruments
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MPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC Importance of financial statement is not what anyone can just keep aside without feeling the heat. A financial statement is very important in every society as many economic and financial decisions are made based on it. WHAT ARE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS? Financial statements are those sets of accounts that every quoted company / incorporation is mandated by law to produce for the benefits of its shareholders and other stakeholders. Financial statements
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Planning for Exceptional Reactive Decision Making When doing this‚ the first step is to look at the risks you face and determine if they have a high or low probability of occurring. You can use a Risk Assessment Matrix (RAM) to do this. To create a Risk Assessment Matrix‚ draw a graph‚ matrix or simple table with a vertical axis marked as "Consequences" and a horizontal axis marked as "Probability". Use a simple scale of 0 (very small) to 5 (very large). "Consequences" are credible potential worst-case
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A role of the Environmental Ethics in the modern society The inspiration for environmental ethics was the first Earth Day in 1970 when environmentalists started urging philosophers who were involved with environmental groups to do something about environmental ethics. An intellectual climate had developed in the last few years of the 1960s in large part because of the publication of two papers in Science: Lynn White`s “The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis” (March 1967) and Garett Hardin`s
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“Within environmental discourse there has been ever-growing mention of the notion of Sustainable development: discuss the idea of Sustainable Development as a means to curb Environmental Injustice and to what extent such a notion can be implemented in current global market and capitalist system.” Introduction Sustainable Development (here on abbreviated to SD) has been a major issue when discussing the environment and environmental ethics. The following discussion will examine the concept of SD
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Chapter 12 Decision Making I: Need Recognition and Search WHAT DO YOU THINK Polling Question Most of the time I am a rational decision maker. Strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly agree Have students access www.cengagebrain.com to answer the polling questions for each chapter of CB. Ask them to take the online poll to see how their answers compare with other students taking a consumer behavior course across the country. Then turn to the last page of the chapter to find the
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