Collapse of Bear Stearns 6 The Offsetting Nature of Relevance and Reliability 7 Fair Value Accounting 9 Information Asymmetry 11 Adverse Selection 11 Moral Hazard 12 Market Efficiency versus Behavioral Finance 13 The Use of Complexity to Hide Risk 14 Disclosure to Shareholders 15 Corporate Governance 16 Executive Compensation 17 Conclusion 18 Appendix 20 References 23 Executive Summary Bear
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capital structure and corporate finance literature is filled with different models‚ but few‚ if any give a complete picture. JEL classification: G32 University College‚ Department of business administration‚ Jonsvannsvn. 82‚ 7004 Trondheim‚ Norway. E-mail: stein.frydenberg@toh.hist.no. £ Sør-Trøndelag 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=556631 The view that capital structure is literally irrelevant or that ”nothing matters” in corporate finance‚ though still sometimes
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SAMPLE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS QUESTIONS 1-3 Tricky‚ Esthero‚ and Macy decide to go into business together to promote new recording artists of alternative music genres‚ calling the business “Alternative Universe.” Assume for purposes of the following questions only‚ that they have chosen to operate the business as a general partnership‚ and that the partnership is formed in a jurisdiction that has adopted the Uniform Partnership Act (UPA). Tricky invested $1‚000‚ Macy invested $9
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The William Wrigley Jr. Company Case Report Ying Suan Lo Julianne Mills Nick Lim Vinson Chen Glen Hamilton Table of Contents 1.0 1.0 Introduction Identifying opportunities for corporate financial restructuring was typical for Blanka Dobrynin‚ a managing partner of the hedge fund Aurora Borealis LLC. In 2002‚ with the then debt free William Wrigley Jr. Company (Wrigley) in her sights‚ she asked her associate Susan Chandler to conduct
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mortgage loans to credit cards brings to mind a question raised by Ismail (2008:1) “ … if finance is everywhere does this mean that we have in some sense become financialized.” This essay sets out to answer Ismail’s question and give a better understanding of the term financialization. Firstly various view points and opinions of the academia‚ economic journalist‚ politicians and analyst in mainstream finance will be reviewed with the aim of examining financialization from their different perspective
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Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow‚ Corporate Finance‚ and Takeovers Michael C. Jensen Harvard Business School MJensen@hbs.edu Abstract The interests and incentives of managers and shareholders conflict over such issues as the optimal size of the firm and the payment of cash to shareholders. These conflicts are especially severe in firms with large free cash flows—more cash than profitable investment opportunities. The theory developed here explains 1) the benefits of debt in reducing agency
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www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 6‚ No. 9; September 2011 Effective Working Capital Management in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) Kehinde James Sunday Dept of Accounting and Finance‚ Lagos State University Ojo‚ Nigeria E-mail: pastorkehindebox@yahoo.com Received: November 15‚ 2010 Accepted: August 10‚ 2011 doi:10.5539/ijbm.v6n9p271 Abstract The need to main effective working capital management within Small and Medium Scale Enterprises
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Tarik Driouchi - tarik.driouchi@kcl.ac.uk Senior Lecturer- Financial & Mgt. studies Office Hours [WBW4.15]: Thursdays 4-6pm A few words on the AAFM MSc… Themes: Accounting Theory‚ Financial Accounting‚ Valuation‚ Corporate Governance‚ Financial Management & Markets‚ Behavioural Finance Structure: Taught modules (term 1 & 2) + Dissertation (term 3) KCL Keats‚ KCL e-resources and Q&As 2 Learning Objectives • Main objectives – To develop robust foundations in financial management theory and
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Auzius Kazombo Mwale Department of Accounting & Finance Testing the inefficient management hypothesis: Are United Kingdom mergers and acquisitions disciplinary? This thesis is provided in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Stirling May 2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank various people to whom I am indebted for assisting me in producing this thesis. I am greatly indebted to Professor Robin Limmack for assisting me with the groundwork
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EVA AND NPV 2 A Comparison of EVA and NPV (discuss the differences and similarity of EVA and NPV; why would companies choose to adopt EVA‚ implementation issues; chronicle the implementation experience of EVA on a real life company). Finance executives are required not only to crunch numbers and generate forecast but to think ‘critically’‚ not just seeing the numbers but understanding their implications. This is what Melon (1994) refers to as conducting a ‘financial assessment’ which
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