CORPORATE HISTORY. Akio Morita‚ Masaru Ibuka‚ and Tamon Maeda (Ibuka’s father- in- law) started Tokyo telecommunications Engineering in 1946 with funding from Morita’s father’s sake business. The company produced the first Japanese tape recorder in 1950. Three years later‚ Morita paid Western Electric (US) $25‚000 for transistor technology licenses‚ which sparked a consumer electronics revolution in Japan. His firm launched one of the first transistor radios in 1955‚ followed by the first
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What Went Wrong: Case Study of a Selected Corporate Scandal “In Texas‚ Robert Allen Stanford appeared to be yet another flamboyant billionaire. But in the breezy Caribbean money haven of Antigua‚ he was lord of an influential financial fief‚ decorated with a knighthood‚ courted by government officials and basking in the spotlight of sports and charity events on which he generously showered his fortune.” This quote from an article in The New York Times portrays the life of Mr. Stanford‚ owner of
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The benefits to a company of practising good corporate governance are now well known. It can raise capital more cheaply in a world where capital is a scarce resource; when it has a downturn it will have support from its stakeholders in its turnaround attempt; its business will be more sustainable; when the board makes a wrong business judgment call – and dealing with uncertain future events it will do so – it will not be seen as a scandal but as a consequence of the risk/reward ratio involved in
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Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies The case of Argentina Content Page 1. Introduction 3 2. Corporate Governance 4 3. Corporate Governance in developed economies 3.1 Corporate governance in the Netherlands 3.2 Globalization & Corporate Governance 5 6 8 4. Corporate Governance in Argentina 9 5. Practical comparison 5.1 The financial sector 5.2 The energy sector 11 6. Conclusion 13 7. References 14 8. Appendix 8.1 Management structure
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - CHALLENGES By: Abhay Tulsian (Student Registration No: SRO 0350545) Audit Executive P. N. Raghavendra Rao & Co.‚ Coimbatore Phone: 7305802475 Email: abhaytulsian@gmail.com ABSTRACT: The paper is an earnest effort to uncover the issue of Challenges in Corporate Governance and recommendation to overcome the challenges there off‚ its legal framework‚ its current status and how accounting may be practiced to protect corporate from corruption by establishing governance. With
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23/01/2015 Essay on Corruption In India by Jasbir Singh Kaura (http://www.civilserviceindia.com/) Recommend this Site (http://www.civilserviceindia.com/refer/) | Contact (http://www.civilserviceindia.com/contact.html) (https://www.facebook.com/civilserviceind?ref=hl) (https://twitter.com/CivilserviceInd) Notice Board Home (../../index.html) » Subject (../index.html) » Essay (index.html) » Corruption In India Corruption In India Corruption is a global evil. Corruption in India is the
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Corporate Finance Lecture Note Packet 2 Capital Structure‚ Dividend Policy and Valuation B40.2302 Aswath Damodaran Aswath Damodaran! 1! Capital Structure: The Choices and the Trade off Neither a borrower nor a lender be Someone who obviously hated this part of corporate finance Aswath Damodaran! 2! First Principles Aswath Damodaran! 3! The Choices in Financing There are only two ways in which a business can make money.
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Kellogg Brown & Root in Nigeria Corruption Case The firm Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in the year of 1998. Among Dresser’s businesses was M. W. Kellog‚ which was combined with an existing Halliburton business and renamed Kellog Brown and Root. By that time‚ Kellog was expecting to build a series of liquefied natural gas in Nigeria‚ but in order to do that it was required to win an initial contract form the Nigerian Government. At the beginning everything was going according to plans‚
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There is nothing like optimum capital structure for a firm. The Optimal Capital structure is that Capital Structure at which the weighted Average cost of capital (Ko) is Minimum. It is that combination of Equity and Debt at which the total cost of capital is mini-mum. Trade-off theory argues that there ’s an optimal amount of debt of each firm. At this level of debt‚ firms can take the most advantage of debts. Debts can be tax shield so that they can save money for firms to reinvest in
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corruption has a number of meanings that cover a vast amount of human actions. A general dictionary defines corruption as debased by errors or alterations; synonymous with acculturation ‚ contamination‚ vitiated‚ polluted. Obviously all negative images. In dealing with corruption and its effect on a country’s economy or political system the World Bank defines the term as the abuse of public office for private gain ( World Bank Report‚ September 1997). In recent years global concerns for corruption
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