about market efficiency can be drawn from available evidence? Evidence supports the weak form and semi strong form‚ but not the strong form‚ efficient market hypothesis. 14.8 What are three implications of the efficient-market hypothesis for corporate finance? 1. The prices of stocks and bonds cannot be affected by the company’s choice of accounting method. 2. Financial managers cannot time issues of stocks and bonds. 3. A firm can sell as many stocks and bonds as it wants without depressing prices
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Journal of Banking & Finance 22 (1998) 371±403 Corporate governance and board eectiveness Kose John a‚ Lemma W. Senbet a b 1 b‚* Stern School of Business‚ New York University‚ New York‚ NY 10012‚ USA Department of Finance‚ College of Business‚ University of Maryland‚ Tydings Hall‚ College Park‚ MD 20742‚ USA Abstract This paper surveys the empirical and theoretical literature on the mechanisms of corporate governance. We focus on the internal mechanisms of corporate governance (e.g.
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Task 1.1: 1. There are some key trends which may have infections to Elecdyne during the next 5 years‚ those factor are shown as follow: • Globalization in all industry may become a very important trend to the company. Because all of the top management team have learnt English‚ and several of them have studied abroad‚ that may lead an opening change from the top to the bottom‚ from minds to actions. • Trade with more and more Asia countries may become a popular tendency to Elecdyne because most
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Which of the following statements is not true regarding the goal of financial management? The goal of maximizing the value per share of existing stock is relevant to all organizations. A way of aligning management goals to shareholder’s interest is to tie managerial compensation to the market value of the firm’s stock. For a company considering international operations‚ the goal will be the same but the company will have to consider the local social‚ economical and political
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1. (TCO 1) What is the goal of financial management for a sole proprietorship? (Points : 3) decrease long-term debt to reduce the risk to the owner maximize net income given the resources of the firm maximize the market value of the equity minimize the tax impact on the proprietor minimize costs and increase production 2. (TCO 1) Which of the these activities is not a capital budgeting task? (Points : 3) determining the amount
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George Stamper‚ a credit analyst with Micro-Encapsulators Corp (MEC) needed to respond to an urgent email request from the southwest sales office. The local sales manager reported that she had an opportunity to clinch an order from Miami Spice (MS) for 50 encapsulators at $10‚000 each. She added that she was particularly keen to secure this order since MS was likely to have a continuing need for 50 encapsulators a year and could therefore prove a very valuable customer. However‚ orders of this
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Balance Sheet as of December 31‚ 2010 | Gary and Company | Cash | $45 | | Accounts payables | $45 | Receivables | 66 | | Notes payables | 45 | Inventory | 159 | | Other current liabilities | 21 | Marketable securities | 33 | | Total current liabilities | $111 | Total current assets | $303 | | | | Net fixed assets | 147 | | Long Term Liabilities | | Total Assets | $450 | | Long-term debt | 24 | | | Total Liabilities | $135 | | | |
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QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS APPROACHES TO QUALITATIVE DATA: WHY‚ WHEN AND HOW - Savitri Abeyasekera Statistical Services Centre‚ University of Reading‚ P.O. Box 240‚ Harry Pitt Building‚ Whiteknights Rd.‚ Reading RG6 6FN‚ UK. Phone 0118 931 8459‚ e-mail s.abeyasekera@rdg.ac.uk 1. Introduction In many research studies involving the use of participatory tools‚ much of the information gathered is of a qualitative nature. Some of this will contribute to addressing specific research questions‚ while
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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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Efficiency of Stock Market According to Andrei Shleifer‚ Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) does not require that every investor be fully rational‚ however‚ investor required to have rational expectations. Efficient market hypothesis has the following implications for investor: Rationality It assumes that investors act rationality. It means that everyone in the stock market will adjust their expectation on the stock price in a rational way after new information announced. Independent Deviations
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