rising value of the yen put pressure on profitability of companies like Olympus‚ which were largely dependent on exports. Cameras sold in the U.S. yielded far less yen and net profit went down substantially. Olympus then started to seek earnings from speculative investments in financial products‚ which worked well until 1990 when the bubble in asset prices burst. Instead of liquidating their assets and reporting their losses‚ Olympus began to invest in even riskier financial instruments‚ which failed
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violate a trust. * Attitudes/Rationalizations: an individual has a lapse in ethical and moral values. When combined with motive and an opportunity‚ fraud occurs Corporate Governance and Reducing Fraud Risks * Management and the board of directors are responsible for implementing control procedures and corporate governance to minimize or prevent fraud. * Therefore‚ programs implemented by management include: Creating a Culture of Honesty and High Ethics: * Embraces its core
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1.1 Introduction Corporate governance has been the subject of numerous theoretical and empirical studies especially after the fraudulent reporting scandals such as Enron‚ World.com‚ Adelphia‚ and Parmalat.it has come to mean many things. Traditionally and at fundamental level the concept refers to corporate decision making and control‚ particularly the structure of the board and its working procedures‚ Hermes (1994). Jenifer (2002) defines corporate governance as a set of interlocking riles by which
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PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………… 1 1.1 Defining Corporate Governance………………………………………… 2 1.2 Principles of Corporate Governance……………………………………. 3 1.3 Importance of Corporate Governance………………………………….. 4 1.4 Objective…………………………………………………………………… 5 1. DIRECTORS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE in INDIA……………….. 6 2.5 Need for Directors- Who is a Director…………………………………... 7 2.6 Statutory Definition of
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the main contribution to academic knowledge. I. Study Summary The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate governance on dividends payout in Canada to better understand "why companies pay dividends". In the light of agency theory‚ Adjaoud and Ben-Amar tested two competing hypothesis‚ which are outcome and substitution hypothesis. They chose Canada to examine the relationship between corporate governance and corporate dividend payments for two reasons; first‚ the comparability
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Laurier East‚ Ottawa‚ Ontario K1N 6N5‚ and 1 HEC Montreal‚ 3000 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road‚ Montreal‚ Quebec H3T 2A7‚ Canada Email: benamar@telfer.uottawa.ca‚ claude.francoeur@hec.ca‚ taieb.2.hafsi@hec.ca‚ real.labelle@hec.ca This study investigates the joint effect of corporate ownership and board of directors’ diversity configurations on the success of strategic merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions. Board diversity is defined as the extent to which its demographic diversity as measured by the culture
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Title: Corporate Governance Assignment topic Option 1 Conduct a review of the governance of your organisation (or one with which you are familiar) in the form of a report to the Chairman (or President) of the Governing Board of Directors. In the brief report use the concepts‚ tools and techniques learned in this subject to review the structure‚ process and effectiveness of the governance of the organisation and make recommendations for appropriate improvements. Executive summary This report
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Cover Page ◦Title Corporate Governance: Relevance and significance in the current Corporate environment. ◦Abstract This article will discuss whether the concept of Corporate Governance appears to make a difference in the way in which companies are managed at board level. It will also briefly mention whether the recent economic turmoil in major and minor companies alike‚ would have been due to a lack of proper corporate governance. It will also explore in brief about the principles
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Corporate Governance Take-Home Exam Compare Turkish Corporate Governance system with the systems in USA‚ Japan and EU. 1. Who is in charge? 2. Board structure‚ independence of members of the board‚ board committees 3. Board and executive remunerations 4. Shareholders rights and ownership rights 5. Related party transactions 6. Ownership structures The OECD sets general principles about corporate governance; nevertheless‚ in different companies corporate governance is not handled in the precisely
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201 Corporate Governance: An International Review‚ 2013‚ 21(3): 201–224 Does “Good” Corporate Governance Help in a Crisis? The Impact of Country- and Firm-Level Governance Mechanisms in the European Financial Crisis Marc van Essen*‚ Peter-Jan Engelen‚ and Michael Carney ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: We examine the effects of firm- and country-level “good” corporate governance prescriptions on firm performance before and during the recent financial crisis
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