MBC 703 –CORPORATE FINANCE & ACCOUNTS ASSIGNMENT: The Primary goal of a firm has been held out to be shareholder wealth maximization which translates to maximizing stock prices. In light of this statement‚ do you think firms have any responsibility to society? BY Akanji Emmanuel olusegun BSU/MS/MBA/08/3104 FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) BENUE STATE UNIVERSITY MAKURDI. AUGUST‚2010 1.0 Introduction:
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PROFIT MAXIMIZATION: REALITY OR A THEORETICAL OBJECTIVE? Research Compiled for The Paper Store‚ Inc. by Amy Sorter 3/2009 For More Information on This Paper‚ Please Visit www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm Introduction Though many people equate economics with finance and accounting‚ it ’s actually a social science‚ a study of behavior and how rational people behave when it comes to allocation of resources. Within the study of that social science are many theories in which economists attempt
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The purpose of the corporation: Shareholder-value maximization? Finance Working Paper N°. 95/2005 Revised version: February 2006 Petra Joerg Institut für Finanzmanagement‚ Universität Bern Claudio Loderer Institut für Finanzmanagement‚ Universität Bern Lukas Roth The Pennsylvania State University Urs Waelchli Institut für Finanzmanagement‚ Universität Bern © Petra Joerg‚ Claudio Loderer‚ Lukas Roth and Urs Waelchli 2006. All rights reserved. Short sections of text‚ not to
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What is the appropriate goal of a firm? Maximization of shareholder wealth is said to be the primary goal of a firm. The financial manager has the responsibility to act in their best interests. Since‚ the common stockholders are the firm’s most important stakeholders to continue operate the business. This goal means that the financial manager can best serve business owners by identifying goods and services that add value to the firm because the market place desires and values what the firm offers
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STAKEHOLDER vs. SHAREHOLDER The central objective of the firm and its managers is making optimal tradeoffs and that of value maximization‚ i.e. maximizing total market value of the firm. There are two theories proposed to achieve the firm’s objective which are the ‘Stakeholder Theory’ and ‘Shareholder Theory’. “Stakeholder Theory” assumes that values are necessarily and explicitly a part of doing business and the manager needs to take into account the interest of all the stakeholders while taking
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Sales Maximization A reasonable‚ and often pursued objective of firms is to maximize sales‚ that is‚ to sell as much output as possible. Clearly sales lead to revenue‚ meaning that maximizing sales is also bound to maximize revenue. But as the analysis of short-run production indicates‚ maximizing sales does NOT necessarily maximize profit. So why do firms do it? Are firms unreasonable? Are they irrational? Do they NOT understand the basic economic principles of short-run production? For some firms
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UTILITY MAXIMIZATION We will examine the nature of consumer choices by working with a simple model in which the consumer DM chooses how to allocate their income M between two good X and Y. The kinds of choices we examine with this model can be quire general with X and Y varying from subjects as diverse as income versus leisure‚ consumption today versus consumption tomorrow‚ and different classes of consumption goods. The utility model has proven quire useful in a number of real world applications
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ECON 600 Lecture 3: Profit Maximization I. The Concept of Profit Maximization Profit is defined as total revenue minus total cost. Π = TR – TC (We use Π to stand for profit because we use P for something else: price.) Total revenue simply means the total amount of money that the firm receives from sales of its product or other sources. Total cost means the cost of all factors of production. But – and this is crucial – we have to think in terms of opportunity cost‚ not just explicit
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Profit Maximization Marginal revenue is the change in revenue which comes from the sale of an additional unit of output. The relationship with total revenue is that total revenue is used in the formula to calculate marginal revenue. A company can calculate marginal revenue by dividing the change in total revenue with the change in output quantity. Because of demand‚ as production quantity increases the revenue per unit will decrease. On the other hand‚ marginal cost is the change in the total
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is represented by general set of customs‚ regulations‚ habits‚ and laws that determine how a firm should be run as to maximize the wealth of its stockholders. So‚ in broader sense‚ corporate governance is maximizing the shareholder’s value by ensuring practices which are fair with regard to all stakeholders‚ customers‚ employees‚ investors‚ vendors‚ the government and the society-at-large. In this context‚ agency theory which was proposed by Jensen and Meckling (1976) has dominated the literature
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