Qus 2. Marginal analysis and the goal of the firm Ken Allen‚ capital budgeting analyst for Bally Gears‚ Inc.‚ has been asked to evaluate a proposal. The manager of the automotive division believes that replacing the robotics used on the heavy truck gear line will produce total benefits of $560‚000 (in today’s dollars) over the next 5 years. The existing robotics would produce benefits of $400‚000 (also in today’s dollars) over that same time period. An initial cash investment of $220‚000 would be
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serious lapse in Agency-relationship problem. You are one of the board members of a public listed company. Discuss how‚ you would implement the necessary safeguards to prevent such instances happening in your company. 1.0 Suggestions to resolve Agency relationship problems. An agency relationship arises whenever individuals‚ known as principals‚ hire individuals‚ known as agents‚ to perform services and delegate decision-making authority to the agents. The primary agency relationships in
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Agency problem and its solutions Introduction Principal-agent relationship occurs when a principal contracts an agent. The principal hires the agent to perform a service for him or to act on his behalf. For example‚ in a large corporation‚ shareholders would hire managers to help them to organize the company in dairy business. However‚ agency problems may arise because of the conflict interest and asymmetry information between principals and agents‚ which lead to agency costs. In this essay‚
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PROBLEMS WITH THE AGENCY RELATIONSHIP If you are the sole owner of a business‚ you make the decisions that affect your own well-being. But what if you are a financial manager of a business and you are not the sole owner? In this case‚ you are making decisions for owners other than yourself; you‚ the financial manager‚ are an agent. An agent is a person who acts for—and exerts powers of—another person or group of persons. The person the agent represents is referred to as the principal. The relationship
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rather prefer to maximize their own wealth or further other personal interests of theirs. This conflict of interest between the two is an example of the principal agent problem. The principal agent problem occurs due to two reasons. The first is the separation of ownership from control - the principal or the shareholders may own a corporation but it is the agent or manager who holds control of it and acts on their behalf. This gives managers the power to do things without necessarily being ‘detected’
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According to Aeneid Book 10‚ lines 595-603‚ the engravings on Pallas’ belt is a literal and visual representation of the violent and gory murder of Aegyptus’ fifty sons by the hand of Danaus’ daughters on their wedding night (Aeneid 10.595-603). The reason behind why Pallas chose to wear a belt with those designs on it is unknown because the answer to that is not mentioned in the text. However‚ if I didn’t know the story behind the belt and had to make one reasonable guess as to why Pallas
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Financial Management (Agency problem) Prepared by: Sami Hassan Saeed Singabi August 2008 Introduction Economic science teaches us that due to their subjective needs‚ individuals have subjective preferences‚ and hence different interest. Occasionally different subjective interests give rise to conflicts of interest between contracting partners. These conflicts of interest may result in turn‚ in one or both parties undertaking actions that may be against the interest of the other
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behind corporate governance 1. Agency problem 2. Stewardship theory 3. Resource dependency theory 4. Stakeholder theory 5. Political theory 6. Transaction cost economics 7. Ethical theory C. Principles of corporate governance D. SOX Act‚ E. Enron Scandal‚ Conclusion I. Introduction: The concept of corporate governance in legal and economic terms is equivalent to “the defense of shareholders”. Corporate governance is the response to typical agency problems between investors and managers
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LEarNING OBJECtIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should understand: LO1 The basic types of financial management decisions and the role of the financial manager. LO2 The goal of financial management. LO3 The financial implications of the different forms of business organization. LO4 The conflicts of interest that can arise between managers and owners. I NTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE mortgages getting into financial difficulties and 1 Overview of Corporate Finance Pa rt 1 IN 2007‚ A
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2.1 Agency Theory‚ Multinational Corporation‚ and Religiosity Over time‚ the raising issue on agency theory where conflict of interest between shareholders who act as the principal and managers who act as the agent has become a big research topic in corporate governance. Fama and Jensen (1983) argue within large and small organizations there is control instrument that deals with the agency problem caused by the separation of ownership and control. The same issue intensifies within multinational
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