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The relationship between management monitoring and firm performance Introduction From previous years, corporate governance (CG) reforms provided a significant important function comply with regulations. The reforms does play an important role in improving transparency and accountability that appear in three key areas which are benefits in the provision of quality financial reporting, reduction in management overconsumption and improved management monitoring (Psaros 2009, p25). There are numerous…

Barco Projection Systems Decision case Company Background: Barco Projection systems is the second largest division of Barco N.V Headquartered in Belgium. This specific division was formed to pursue the technology of video projection. It designed manufactured and sold sophisticated video projectors for industrial use and applications. Those projectors can be used to project images and information on to large screen. What makes BPS stands out is their scan rate, which measure the speed at a…

Cross sectional and longitudinal study designs, like many other designs, trade-off biases and handle measurement error quite differently (“cross-sectional vs. longitudinal studies | Institute for Work & Health,” n.d.). Cross-sectional designs that use the method of collecting and comparing data from multiple cohorts of different ages at the same point of time. An example would be including 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 year olds to measure the effect of age on smoking. They were all recruited at the…

FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS 1. The initial capital of ChixChops is five hundred thousand pesos (P 500,000). 2. Salaries expense of the employees is expected to increase 2 % per annum. This is based on the inflation rate given by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for the year 2016 – 2020. 3. Clothing expenses of employees are expected to increase every 2 years by 2%. 4. Utilities expense is expected to increase by 2% annually. 5. Advertising expense is expected to increase 2% annually. 6.…

Description Agency Theory Agency theory is a form of corporate governance where the role of the board of directors is to act as an independent intermediary between two entities. The board of directors is basically the governing body that facilitates the interaction between the principles and the agents. The principles or shareholders, are the entities which bring the resources to the firm from investments. The agents on the other hand are the people who utilize the resources of the principles…

Pre-acquisition Situation: An analysis of the Pharmaceutical Industry & Companies Involved The period prior to the acquisition saw the pharmaceutical Industry consisting of six largest pharmaceutical companies - Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly, Schering-Plough, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories accounting for a combined sales exceeding $137 billion. Changing forces within the Industry: The year 2007 saw the industry entering into a new era because of the current model becoming obsolete.…

INTRODUCTION A dividend decision policy of a firm is a crucial area of financial management. The importance of a dividend policy is to determine the amount of earnings or profit made by the company to be distributed to shareholders and the amount to be retained in the firm. The amount retained is called retained earnings this are the most significant internal sources of financing the growth of the firm. On the shareholder side dividends are considered desirable because they may increase the…

One of the biggest disagreement between the two companies was the equity value of Lombardi. According to Lombardi, their company was valued at $8M, Hagilent Technologies’ equity expert rated Lombardi as a sole entity around $1M - $1.7M. Even though Hagilent Technologies equity expert explained that valuing a band name was difficult, Hagilent Technologies was disappointed to learn that the value was lower than the price offer and lower than their expectations (Gouveia & Lee, 2016). This issue…

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, and the “Invisible Hand”: A Metaphor For Ambiguity-Uncertainty Aversion by Decision Makers Michael Emmett Brady Lecturer School of Business and Public Policy Department of Operations Management California State University , Dominguez Hills Carson ,California USA Abstract: Smith’s use of the “Invisible Hand”,as pointed out by Gavin Kennedy, is a metaphor provided for the great percentage of readers of the Wealth of Nations whom Smith realized would not be…

Commercial Law and Big Money? That’s undeniably possible. The single dilemma that most of the law students face is to decide on which area to practice. While some of them might be sure of their field of interest, most of them surely aren’t. What makes one good in any area is the level and willingness to understand the individual sectors. Commercial Law is a big thing in the world as it involves a ton of government legalities, proceedings, and cases to handle. Every firm does need a team of wise…