Question no. 01. Did the authors conclude that firms had been using significantly higher level of debt from 1995 through 1999? Ans. Yes‚ the authors concluded that firms had been using significantly higher level of debt from 1995 through 1999. According to the authors‚ the build-up of debt in the late 1990s raised concerns about the U.S. nonfinancial corporate sector’s health and vulnerability to economic downturns. It had been seen that‚ between 1995 and 1999 the outstanding
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CASH HOLDINGS‚ WORKING CAPITAL AND FIRM VALUE: EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE Ruta AUTUKAITE* – Eric MOLAY** Abstract: Although companies deal with day-to-day short term financial decisions‚ in corporate finance the emphasis is being put on long term financial issues when talking about company’s value. In this paper a sample of French listed companies was chosen to assess the importance of short term financial decisions to company’s value by testing the following hypotheses: an extra euro invested in cash
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replaced. It requires the existence of some objective or goal‚ because judgment as to whether or not a financial decision is efficient must be made in light of some standard. Although various objectives are possible‚ we assume that the goal of the firm is to maximize the wealth of the firm’s present owners. Shares of common stock give evidence of ownership in a corporation. Shareholder wealth is represented by the market price per share of the firm’s common stock‚ which‚ in turn‚ is a reflection
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Monitoring Earnings Management from Financial Statements ‘The Characteristics of firms subject to adverse rulings by the Financial Reporting Review Panel’‚ Peasnell‚ Pope and Young‚ 2001‚ Accounting and Business Research‚ Vol 31‚ pp291-311. Introduction The agency responsible for enforcing accounting standards in the UK is the Financial Reporting Review Panel (FRRP). It is responsible for reviewing departures from the accounting requirements of the Companies Act and forcing
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Preference towards various Stock Brokerage Firms in Indore November 20‚ 2012 Submitted To : Submitted By : Dr. Yamini Karmarkar Dhwanil Mehta IM 2K9 36 Himanshu Patidar IM 2K9 47 Title A Study of Customer Preference towards various Stock Brokerage Firms in Indore. Index S.No. Particulars Page No. 1 INTRODUCTION
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Impact of Corporate Governance on Firm Performance—an Empirical investigation from the Insurance Industry of Pakistan Hafiz Muhammad Raheel Arif* Raheel_prince23@hotmail.com 00923216190575 *COMSATS Institute of Information Technology and Science Lahore‚ Pakistan Abstract The study is devoted to check the impact of corporate governance (CG) on the firm performance (FP) of the insurance industry of Pakistan. Four measures have been used in the paper to check the firm performance being affected by
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Introduction Companies today recognize that they cannot appeal to all buyers in the marketplace‚ or at least not to all buyers in the same way. The reason are follow: 1. There are too many buyers‚ too widely scattered and too varied in their needs. 2. There are so many competitiors which focus on their connected customer. 3. Most companies have identifying market segments‚ selecting one or more of them‚ and developing products and marketing programs tailored to each. If
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talk about firm specific advantages. According to Barney and his article Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage‚ a few things are needed to gain a firm specific advantage. But also‚ he argues that a firm can gain a Sustained Competitive Advantage. SLIDE According to Barney‚ a firm has a sustained competitive advantage when it is implementing a value creating strategy not simultaneously being implemented by any current or potential competitors AND when these other firms are unable
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Question 3-3 If a “typical” firm reports $20 million of retained earnings on its balance sheet‚ could its directors declare a $20 million cash dividend without having any qualms about what they were doing? Explain your answer. Its directors could declare a $20 million cash dividend without having any qualms about what they were doing‚ because retained earnings may not held as cash. Retained earnings represent the cumulative total of all earnings kept by the company during its life. Therefore‚ $20
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Architecturai Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms Rebecca M. Henderson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kim B. Clark Harvard University This paper demonstrates that the traditional categorization of innovation as either incremental or radical is incomplete and potentially misleading and does not account for the sometimes disastrous effects on industry incumbents of seemingly minor improvements in technological products. We examine
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