Corporate law

“Fat Taxes” is the colloquial phrase for government imposed taxes on certain foods and/or drinks considered to cause obesity and decrease overall public health. The purpose of these taxes are to help to urge consumers to buy healthy food items and sway them from the unhealthy choices, they also are intended to be a boost to government tax revenues. However, these fat taxes have been shown to not improve public health or boost government tax revenue effectively, they have also been shown to fail…

lawyer, business owners and the not for profit professor provide input regarding organizational rules and policies. Having these individuals with experience with governance will make sure as an organization we are running effectively and within the law. Three of the created policies that have already been set by the founders from the guidance of the advisory board are related to conflict of interest, how the founders will be held accountable for decisions, and the prevention of private…

Several times a year, Corporations across the country feel the pressure of hitting analysts’ earnings expectations, and the very real possibility of missing those expectations. The consequences for missing earnings expectations goes much farther than management’s job certainty, and can directly affect the view that investors have on a company. Earnings management (EM) helps make meeting these expectations more manageable. However, there are a multitude of problems associated with earnings…

scandal involving fictitious transactions in Korea and improper accounting methodologies elsewhere. In April 2001, founders Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, as well as former CEO Gaston Bastiaens, were arrested in what is considered one of the largest corporate scandals in history prior to Enron. Lernout & Hauspie finally went bankrupt on 25 October 2001 after having struggled for a…

1. State the Miller Modigliani (MM) dividend irrelevance proposition Modigliani and Miller (MM) proposed that in an ideally simple and perfect capital market, shareholders are indifferent between dividend and capital gains, and the value of a company is determined solely by the earning power of its assets and investments. Focuses more on firm value but not on firm risk. MM argued that if a company with investment opportunities decides to pay dividend, so that retained earnings are insufficient…

decision being made. The ethicality of tax avoidance will be measured by the utility gained or lost by Apple, Ireland, and the United States. The analysis will focus on the years 2009 through 2012, the years Apple’s subsidiary companies paid no corporate income tax to any nation because of the tax discrepancies. The decision that is ethically right will be the one which results in the maximum utility for the greatest amount of people. Apple’s Utility In the years of 2009 through 2012, Apple’s…

Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund (JDMAX) is a major fund management business that strives towards a long-term growth of capital. The business is a merge between Henderson Group and Janus Capital Group. It is a Class C mutual fund. It has a minimum investment of $2,500.00 and has a five start overall rating from Morningstar. Each fund has different ways that the risks can be evaluated. One way that a risk can be evaluated is through beta. Beta describes how much the fund’s price moves in…

Nicholas Cosmo: Bad Investor or Crook Nicholas Cosmo (Figure 2), born in 1971, is a former American businessman and white collar criminal (Nicholas Cosmo, n.d.). “In 1997, after Cosmo became a licensed stockbroker, he was arrested and later pleaded guilty to mail fraud related to a stock investment scheme. He was sentenced in 1999 to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $177,000 plus interest and to undergo therapy for gambling. His broker's license was revoked in 2000 and he…

Ethical values do not span across cultures around the world. There are many things that depend on the culture of the company that determine how the company will run. Companies are all run differently throughout cultures, so ethical values do not span across cultures. Business practices are also run differently throughout culture. There are many different ways that companies handle issues, and not all are handled ethically (Pitta). I think that ethical values are something that needs to span…

2. Capital Structure and Solvency: Solvency refers to the company’s ability to meet its long-term obligations. The capital structure of a company details how the company is financed, that is, the proportion of debt to equity. Below are the ratios for Starbucks Corp. and the Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc. (Subramanyam, 2014). Table 6: Capital Structure & Solvency-Starbucks. & Dunkin’ Brands Group. Prepared by Kyria Aho 2.1. Total debt to equity: This ratio compares the debt capital of the…