Shareholder and Stakeholder Over the last decade‚ with the rapid development of business management‚ the Shareholders who are the effective owners of the company invest money into the business and want as much profit as possible as a return for their investment. Shareholders will engage manager to help them to run the business and make various decisions in different aspects in order to maximize potential wealth. There seems to be no doubt that a manager has a legal responsibility to shareholders
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one of the following questions: 2. “Business will never be sustainable because profit is the main driver”. Discuss. Business sustainability and profits are two significant issues‚ which modern organization’s stakeholders are concerning. It is unrealistic that companies can achieve both optimal financial success and also preserve certain ethical dignities. Therefore‚ moral principles inevitable to be suffered as firm’s profit is higher prioritise‚ and even be sacrificed. It is critical to acknowledge
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“The primary role of management is to maximize the wealth of the shareholder.” “Financial management should include not only a concern for profit maximization but also for maximization of societal value.” The stakeholder theory defines the main objective of each and every organization. It is to be able to maximize the wealth of the firm by increasing its stock price. By defining the wealth of the firm‚ it is also defining the stockholder who own shares of the company. The parallelism of the stock
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The Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Debate T he stakeholder theorists smell blood. Scandals at Enron‚ Global Crossing‚ ImClone‚ Tyco International and WorldCom‚ concerns about the independence of accountants who are charged with auditing financial statements‚ and questions about the incentive schema and investor recommendations at Credit Suisse First Boston and iMerrill Lynch have all provided rich fodder for those who question the premise of shareholder supremacy. Many observers have claimed that
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becomes a shareholder and owner of the corporation. Shareholder and corporations are liable. THE LIMITED LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDER One of the key advantages of the corporate forms is the limited liability of its owners. Corporate shareholders normally are not personally liable for the obligations of the corporation beyond the extent of their investments. CORPORATE TAXATION Corporate profits are taxed‚ and do not receives tax deduction for dividends distributed to shareholders. Profits that are
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"Health Is More Important Thant Wealth" Do you know how precious your health is? Do you know the value of your health? What about the wealth? Which one of them is important? Health and wealth‚ two words that rhyme so well but often do not occur together. People said that "Health is Wealth". Good health can be define as if your body is free from mental and body disease. According to Bidisha Mukharjee (2012) in her article "Why is Health Important?"‚ she stated that a good health can be describe
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: EFFECTS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH by Maria Maher and Thomas Andersson ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT © OECD 19992 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: EFFECTS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY.................................................................................................................................................... 3 I. Introduction......................................................
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A. FIRM AND ITS OBJECTIVE: Conventional theory of firm assumes profit maximization is the sole objective of business firms. But recent researches on this issue reveal that the objectives the firms pursue are more than one. Some important objectives‚ other than profit maximization are: (a) Maximization of the sales revenue (b) Maximization of firm’s growth rate (c) Maximization of Managers utility function (d) Making satisfactory rate of Profit (e) Long run Survival of the firm (f) Entry-prevention
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THE THEORY OF THE FIRM Notes by:Ramon Somar THE THEORY OF THE FIRM Even though managerial economics is not concerned solely with the management of business firms‚ this is its principal field of application. To apply managerial economics to business management‚ we need a theory of the firm‚ a theory indicating how firms behave and what their goals are. The concept of the firm plays a central role in the theory and practice of managerial economics. An understanding of the reason for the existence
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profit maximization Definition A process that companies undergo to determine the best output and price levels in order to maximize its return. The company will usually adjust influential factors such as production costs‚ sale prices‚ and output levels as a way of reaching its profit goal. There are two main profit maximization methods used‚ and they are Marginal Cost-Marginal Revenue Method and Total Cost-Total Revenue Method. Profit maximization is a good thing for a company‚ but can be a bad thing
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