Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 23 (2013) 1–24 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Pacific-Basin Finance Journal journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pacfin The role of the audit committee and the informativeness of accounting earnings in East Asia Tracie Woidtke a‚ Yin-Hua Yeh b‚⁎ a b Department of Finance‚ Corporate Governance Center‚ University of Tennessee‚ United States Graduate Institute of Finance‚ National Chiao Tung University‚ 1001 Ta-Hsueh Rd.‚ Hsinchu
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Capital budgeting (or investment appraisal) is the planning process used to determine whether an organization ’s long term investments such as new machinery‚ replacement machinery‚ new plants‚ new products‚ and research development projects are worth pursuing. It is budget for major capital‚ or investment‚ expenditures.[1] Many formal methods are used in capital budgeting‚ including the techniques such as * Accounting rate of return * Payback period * Net present value * Profitability
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complaints from the citizens about an increase in crime and also an issue of the public demanding for more police officers. With the population of the city growing daily‚ the increase of crime is continuing to progress as well. The mayor has informed us that this past year is the highest increase in crime in the city’s history‚ that the federal government has reduced the federal pass-through money for the state and that the budgeting group needs to revamp the budget for the coming year. Within this document
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Social Accountability Stocktaking Exercise FOR AFRICA GENDER BUDGETING INITIATIVE (GBI)‚ TANZANIA GENDER NETWOKING PROGRAMME (TGNP) TANZANIA |Methodology Type |Specify whether (i) PB‚ (ii) IBA‚ (iii) BPET‚ or (iv) PPM (can select more than one option as some SA | | |initiatives do not fit neatly into these categories) | |
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ESTIMATING THE RISK PREMIUM USING HISTORICAL DATA: A CASE OF THE NSE Introduction This study seeks to estimate the risk premium of a company using historical data. Analysts use historical data to estimate the risk premium of a company’s equity. This is because the historical data is readily available from the company’s financial statements and the securities exchanges for example the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) in Kenya. Historical market data can be used to compute average returns and a measure
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Zero-Based Budgeting Every organization goes through a point where it has to re-evaluate all its departments in an effort to see if they are all working to their full capacity or if there are any cuts and or reductions that can be made in an effort to save the organization some capital. Whenever anyone hears about reevaluations of department the first thing that comes to their mind is that they is a possibility that jobs may be deemed no longer necessary and therefore cut. Budgeting
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Corporate Finance: The Core (Berk/DeMarzo) Chapter 7 - Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting 1) Which of the following statements is false? A) Because value is lost when a resource is used by another project‚ we should include the opportunity cost as an incremental cost of the project. B) Sunk costs are incremental with respect to the current decision regarding the project and should be included in its analysis. C) Overhead expenses are associated with activities that are not directly attributable to a single business
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University of Phoenix Material Capital Budgeting Case Your company is thinking about acquiring another corporation. You have two choices—the cost of each choice is $250‚000. You cannot spend more than that‚ so acquiring both corporations is not an option. The following are your critical data: Corporation A Revenues = $100‚000 in year one‚ increasing by 10% each year Expenses = $20‚000 in year one‚ increasing by 15% each year Depreciation expense = $5‚000 each year
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Revenue has become the lifeblood of the government from the moment the Philippines had been given the freedom to establish its own system of governance and formulate laws which formally states the people’s rights‚ duties and obligations. However‚ for the country to continuously sustain the needs of its citizens it has to generate revenues from the different sources available. How will the national government implement the maximization of revenues from local communities
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Solution to Chapter 8: Budgeting for Planning and Controlling ___________________________________________________________ CHAPTER 8 QUESTIONS FOR WRITING AND DISCUSSION 1. Budgets are the quantitative expressions of plans. Budgets are used to translate the goals and strategies of an organization into operational terms. 2. Control is the process of setting standards‚ receiving feedback on actual performance‚ and taking corrective action whenever actual performance deviates from planned performance
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