Economics 32 (2001) 237–333 Financial accounting information and corporate governance$ Robert M. Bushmana‚*‚ Abbie J. Smithb a Kenan-Flagler Business School‚ University of North Carolina‚ Chapel Hill‚ NC 27599-3490‚ USA b Graduate School of Business‚ University of Chicago‚ USA Received 4 October 1999; received in revised form 4 April 2001 Abstract This paper reviews and proposes additional research concerning the role of publicly reported financial accounting information in the governance
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Financial Statements XACC/290 January 12‚ 2014 Melissa Drayton Financial Statements There are four basic financial statements: balance sheet‚ income statement‚ retained earnings statement‚ and statement of cash flows. These financial statements would include an overview of the assets‚ liabilities‚ expenses‚ and revenues of the business. Financial statements are useful not only to internal user; such as managers and employees‚ but also to external users; such as investors and creditors to
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Executive Summary The purpose of this assignment is to analyze the financial position of John Keells Holdings PLC. The author has consisted only JKH PLC along and not its subsidiaries (group). The author has made use eleven ratios to analyze the financial position of the company. The ratios that he has used are Return on Investment (ROI)‚ Return to shareholders‚ Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)‚ Earnings per share (EPS)‚ Price-Earnings Ratio (P/E)‚ Dividend yield‚ Dividend payout‚ Gearing ratio
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Assignment Chapter 10 True/False Indicate whether the statement is true or false. True 1. "Capital" is sometimes defined as the funds supplied by investors. True 2. The cost of capital should reflect the average cost of the various sources of long-term funds a firm uses to acquire assets. True 3. The component costs of capital are market-determined variables in the sense that they are based on investors’ required returns. False 4. The before-tax cost of debt‚ which is lower than the
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budgeting decisions and its financing decisions by giving examples of each. Capital budgeting decisions are investment decisions and financing decisions focus on raising the money that the firm needs for investments and operations. A company needs to decide which real assets to invest in (capital budgeting) and ways to raise funds to pay for those investments (financing decisions). An example of capital budgeting would be a company spending 1 million on a marketing campaign to advertise a new line
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The Effects of Employee Satisfaction on Company Financial Performance “People are our most valuable asset.” “Our employees come first.” “We’re only as strong as our people.” These declarative statements have been a staple of the American workplace for decades. Yet judging by their routine growth strategies‚ countless senior management teams seem to be in denial of just how accurate those statements are. While most organizations typically emphasize generating new business and cutting costs‚ a rapidly
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This essay is to critically evaluate the usefulness of the accounting theory to practicing accountants today. It will provide a general assessment of information asymmetry and the fundamental problem of accounting‚ and it will also briefly discuss the normative and positive accounting theories and their usefulness to practicing accountants. After those discussions‚ it will specifically discuss the strength and limitation of positive accounting theory and assess its usefulness to practicing accountants
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entity‚ it is required to release financial reports that comply with the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) (Deegan 2008:83). Two companies have been chosen to analyse their reports‚ in particular the disclosures made in their respective reports. The two companies chosen to analyse are Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Macquarie Bank Limited (MBL). CBA The Commonwealth Bank is one of Australia’s leading providers of integrated financial services including retail‚ business
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Financial Careers What am I going to do after school or university? Maybe I should consider a job in the financial world. There’s a surprisingly wide range to choose from — for example‚ I could raise money for charities or sell famous paintings or write about economics as a financial journalist or run my own company or... Fund-raiser. There are thousands of different charities these days — e.g. ’for children’‚ ’cancer research’‚ ’the disabled’‚ ’the third world’‚ ’AIDS research’. They all do
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Countrywide Financial: Failure of Corporate Governance‚ Incentive Compensation‚ & the Sub-Prime Crisis Executive Summary: Countrywide Financial was a mortgage-banking firm. They had one of the largest market shares in the early 2000s‚ when the mortgage market was booming. “No company pursued growth in home loans more aggressively than Countrywide” (NY Times 12/10). They were the leader of their industry‚ with 500 billion in home loans‚ 62‚000 employees‚ 900 offices‚ and
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