Audit Quality and Cost of Debt Capital for Private Firms: Evidence from Finland Jukka Karjalainen Department of Business University of Eastern Finland April 10‚ 2010 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of the perceived audit quality in terms of who audits‚ as well as the audit outcomes in terms of the auditor’s opinion and accruals quality‚ in the pricing of debt capital for privately-held firms by examining a large sample of privately-held Finnish firms. The
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Cummins 1.What position should Jason Sterling take on European sovereign debt? Why? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using credit default swaps to profit from this crisis? What are the potential risks? Are there any lessons for Jason that can be gleaned from previous crises? Jason Sterling want to find new information that can let him trade on before the close of trading for the week because the emerging sovereign debt crisis in Europe would be a primary topic among the worldwide leaders and
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Credit card debt is a major cause of over one million bankruptcies each year. The reason is that many people get a credit card without researching and reading the fine print. By the time annual fees are added on‚ along with spending indiscriminately‚ payments are missed‚ which causes their balance to skyrocket. Although we all like to place the blame on the credit cards and the credit card companies‚ you need to keep in mind that the real cause of your financial mess is you. One shopping
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Two Important Concepts About Debt And Future Financial Situation After watching the video of Warren Buffett’s speech‚ How to Stay Out of Debt‚ I realized how important for American youth to learn the tips to manage their money. According to Warren Buffett‚ debt is very common to see in daily life‚ since lending loan or borrowing loan is essential to most of the American families. In the address‚ Warren Buffett talked about his opinions of debt‚ and he indicated that people should be caution of their
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Date: January 30‚ 2010 Domestic Debt and the Nigerian Economy I. Adofu and M. Abula Departm ent of Eco nom ics‚ Kogi S tate University‚ A nyigba‚ Nigeria Abstract: The study investigates the empirical relationship between domestic debt and economic grow th in Nigeria. Using OLS regression techniques and the time series data from 1986 – 2005‚ the study explored the relationship betw een d ome stic deb t and economic growth in Nigeria. Our result shows that domestic debt has affected the growth of the
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Executive Summary The cause of American debt ceiling crisis was the substantial increase in defense expenditure continuing recession in the domestic economy‚ which led the government had to borrow more than the legal limit. There has been a long bitter debate of whether or not to raise the debt ceiling since this would influence a lot on capital market. Advantages of this measure is rising the debt ceiling would avoid disruption on treasury financing market‚ which is widely used as collateral. And
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America’s Debt It took a while for the administration of Obama to initialize action about America’s enormously increasing debt. Given that the country has mounting debts‚ it would be difficult shrink it down. It is said on the article that president does not step up his personal involvement in the negotiations. His people‚ though‚ presented courses of actions to cut off the said problem. Some are to increase taxes‚ raise debt limit‚ eliminate tax benefits of other companies‚ increasing user
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I don’t only believe that $120‚000 in debt is not only fair‚ but is just exceptionably too low. Education is important‚ so money is no object. One million dollars ought to be the norm of what students will pay to ensure that their future will be set. People know the higher the tuition the better the education‚ right? Any individual with brains enough to set off for college realizes that the universities with the most elevated educational cost are the best ones. It makes enough sense to charge college
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The European sovereign debt crisis‚ which made it difficult or impossible for some countries in the euro area to repay or re-finance their government debt without the assistance of third parties (Haidar‚ Jamal Ibrahim‚ 2012)‚ had already badly hurt the economies in “PIIGS”‚ Portugal‚ Ireland‚ Italy‚ Greece and Spain. This financial contagion continues to spread throughout the euro area‚ and becomes a dangerous threat not only to European economy‚ but also to global economy. Although a commonly
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2 Concept of the public debt and types of public debts……………………….......7 2.3 The size and the composition of the public debt……………………………......7 2.4 Concepts economic development and developing countries………………........8 2.5 Theoretical linkage between the debt and development…………………..........9 2.6 Debt management in developing countries ……………………………….........10 2.7 Impacts of public debt on economic development
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