Introduction: The past decade has been witness to some of the worst accounts of corporate fraud ever recorded‚ with multi-billion dollar companies such as Enron‚ Tyco‚ and World-com involved in serious financial scandals. CEOs and senior executives are often the driving force behind such unscrupulous activities by adopting shady accounting practices and other forms of short-termist actions for the purpose of increasing their firm’s stock price and their own personal wealth. The following paper will
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• List some problem areas in estimating the cost of capital. 1. LECTURE SUGGESTIONS Chapter 10 uses the rate of return concepts covered in previous chapters‚ along with the concept of the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)‚ to develop a corporate cost of capital for use in capital budgeting. We begin by describing the logic of the WACC‚ and why it should be used in capital budgeting. We next explain how to estimate the cost of each component of capital‚
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Corporate Social Responsibility CSR is a win- win opportunity for companies‚ financial investors and society at large * Corporate Social Responsibility * “CSR is about how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society.” Business has a responsibility to give it back to society * Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR): * An obligation‚ beyond that required by the law and economics‚ for a firm to pursue
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10/3/2012 Corporate Social Responsibility Introduction: A Stakeholder’s Perspective Perspective Recent Business Incidents for Deliberation – 1 • Toyota: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNm-h9FbJg&feature=channel • The Octopus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30eVK1C1C0 • Cafe de coral: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/201011/04/content_11499922.htm • Minimum Wages ▫ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnwck09iBdU&feature=fvsr • Cafe de Coral ▫ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG47rvQVP0A&feature=fvsr
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To answer this‚ a review of the company`s board structure and ownership structure was made. Thereafter two specific situations that has occurred in recent times was used as case examples to enlighten the agency problems suggested to emerge by the corporate structure. Ownership Structure Whinston and Segal defines ownership as a set of rights and obligations concerning assets (Thomsen and Conyon‚ 2012‚ p. 122). The ownership structure‚ naturally‚ highly affects the actions of the company. Hershey
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THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LXVII‚ NO. 1 • FEBRUARY 2012 Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance BENJAMIN E. HERMALIN and MICHAEL S. WEISBACH∗ ABSTRACT Public policy discussions typically favor greater corporate disclosure as a way to reduce firms’ agency problems. This argument is incomplete because it overlooks that better disclosure regimes can also aggravate agency problems and related costs‚ including executive compensation. Consequently‚ a point can exist beyond which additional
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CORPORATE GOVRERNANCE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE CASE STUDY: ROOFINGS GROUP 1.0 INTRODUCTION Corporate governance is concerned with ways in which all parties interested in the well-being of the firm (the stakeholders) attempt to ensure that managers and other insiders take measures or adopt mechanisms that safeguard the interests of the stakeholders. Such measures are necessitated by the separation of ownership from management‚ an increasingly vital feature of the modern firm. A typical firm
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Corporate Governance & Board of Directors The Corporate Governance of any business is the relationship among the board of directors‚ management and shareholders to help in determining the path and performance of the corporation (Hunger & Wheelen‚ 2007‚ p. 18). Although laws and standards vary‚ the board of directors is: · Those who set the overall path‚ vision and mission within the business. · Those who make the decisions to hire and‚ or fire any top management member (Hunger & Wheelen‚ 2007
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amongst the financial analysts‚ the rating agencies and the banks (as creditors‚ brokers‚ dealers‚ etc.)‚ allowed Callisto Tanzi‚ the founder and the chairman of the group‚ and the other managers to perpetrate the fraud which eventually resulted in Corporate Collapse of Parmalat. The paper will not discuss on those areas. 1. INTRODUCTION Parmalat was the largest Italian food company and the fourth largest in Europe‚ controlling 50% of the Italian market in milk and milk-derivative products. Suddenly
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Tyco International- Corporate Malfeasance Case Summary Tyco began in 1960 when it was founded by Arthur Rosenberg and started as an investment holding firm. In 1973 Joseph Gaziano took over for Rosenberg as CEO and pursued many hostile acquisitions. He was successful and was able to grow the company to a net worth of $140 million before he passed away in 1982. The CEO who took his place was John Fort who came in with the basic strategy of maximizing shareholder wealth through dramatically
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