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... Chapter 10 Corporate governance issues 345 Chapter Overview 346 Corporate governance definitions and drivers 346 The Cadbury Report 349 The Greenbury Report 352 The Hampel Review and the Combined ... ● there are no other existing or potential liabilities that may adversely affect the object of the due diligence (the target or candidate). The Due Diligence Handbook: Corporate Governance, ... run by the chief executive of the purchaser, the finance director of the vendor ’s group of companies and one partner from each of the purchaser ’s and vendor ’s lawyers and accountants, the organisation...

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... 295–316 297 mergers inflate their earnings prior to the merger in order to inflate their stock price and thereby reduce the cost of the merger. Other studies have examined the incentives of managers ... management and external auditors (p. 7). The panel’s recommendations focus on the independence of the board members who serve on the audit committee and on the active and formal role of the audit ... management and corporate governance: the role of the board and the audit committee Biao Xie a , Wallace N. Davidson III a, * , Peter J. DaDalt b a Department of Finance, Mailcode 4626, Southern Illinois...

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... monitor and discipline managers, and facilitate the exchange of goods and services. At the heart of these theories is the role of the financial sector in reducing information costs and transaction ... for the industry and the quality of the corporate disclosure regime in the country. Love (2000) examines the hypothesis that financial development affects growth by decreasing information and ... can explore the effects of the per-capita penetration of the media, the state versus private ownership of the media, and interactions between the penetration and ownership of the media. We...

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... addressing the ã immediate concerns of companies in the wake of the pandemic. As they stand, however, they are neither creative nor far-reaching in their orientation. The progressive nature of the ... impact on the company;ã impact on employee profile and costs;ã impact on demand for labour and skills; and impact on production costs and consumer demand.ã The second part, investigating the business ... www.hsrcpress.ac.za Compiled by the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme of the HSRC Funded by and prepared for the Safety and Security Sector Education and Training Authority The impact of and responses...

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... corporate finance and corporate governance Knyazeva, Diana ProQuest Dissertations and Theses; 2007; ProQuest Central pg. n/a Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction ... of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Essays in corporate ... Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without...

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... by the end of 2004 (See Chart 2.2). Although more than 80% of NPLs in the Big Four were caused by the government intervention, the support of the SOEs, the low standard of legal system and the ... interpreted as the success probability of the project. If the project succeeds, ( ) x a is the overall revenue received by the bank; and if the project fails, nothing would be paid and the bank ... risks in the hierarchy. The output of the project portfolio of the outlet is a lottery in the form of: { } (), ();0,1 () x apb pb− where () x i and () p i are the revenue function of the project...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:02

... 2 (August 3 rd ) Theories of takeovers, clustering and governance aspects ã Chapters 6 & 7 ã Holmstrom, B. and S. Kaplan, Corporate governance and merger activity in the United States: ... accessible introduction to the literature on corporate takeovers, other forms of corporate restructurings and governance. It includes a complete, yet concise synthesis of the recent available literature ... published in the Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Terry Walter Terry Walter is a Professor of Finance and Head...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 14:20

... correlation, with the only significant correlation between the size of the company (SIZE) and the size of the board of directors (+0.442) and between the board change and the CEO change (+0.332). ... based on the Pearson correlations. Standing out are those relations between the board change and the CEO change (+0.296) and between the leverage and the firm size (+0.328) found the figures ... reporting. The empirical evidence provided by Anderson, Mansi and Reeber (2004) supports the hypothesis that the size of the board of directors will influence the cost of debt financing. The results...

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... for the industry of the previous sections - Chapter 11 provides the main findings, discussion of the results and the research questions. - Chapter 12 discusses the limitations of the study and ... of Science and Technology (Espoo, Finland) on the 3 of November, 2010, at 12 noon. rd ON THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES OF THE GLOBAL PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR CORPORATE ... culture and knowledge and better preservation and transport of food are just some of the important contributions of the industry to modern civilization. Today, the end-products of the industry...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... from the Treasury Committee during the current Parliament 114 Banking Crisis: reforming corporate governance and pay in the City 47 4 Corporate governance The role of the Board 125. The ... quality of the business, the risk management in the business; the second, it is the quantum of bonus that is paid and making sure that is in line with the relative success of the business and the ... reforming corporate governance and pay in the City 7 banks and Banking Crisis: dealing with the failure of UK banks. We shall consider the public regulatory framework and the role of the tripartite...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20

... suppliers as the industry segment with the highest demand for corporate restructuring after the banking industry. 1.2 MOTIVATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TOPIC 9 distress situations and the variety ... Nonetheless, no complete and coherent theory of corporate turnaround exists. 3 Research has intensified since the 1970s, 4 but understanding of corporate turnaround remains incomplete, and ... underlying research questions, and intended contribution to the literature. The motivation and significance for the research object ‘automotive supplier industry and the identification of successful...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 16:33

... leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance data services . ISS's proprietary rating system, Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQđ), ranks the corporate governance performance of more than 7,500 companies worldwide, including the following indexes : S&P 500, S&P 600, S&P 400, Russell 3000, MSCIâ EAFE (Europe, Asia and Far East) and S&P TSX Composite Index (Canada) . Considered to be the world's leading authority on corporate governance, ISS's CGQ is designed on the premise that good corporate governance ultimately results in increased shareholder value . Note : An issuer may have purchased self-assessment tools and publications from ISS, or ISS's Corporate Programs division may have provided advisory ... of industry- adjusted CGQ (Corporate Governance Quotient) have 5-year returns that are 3 .95% below the industry average, while firms in the top decile of industry- adjusted CGQ have 5-year returns that are 7 .91 % above the industry- adjusted average .' The difference in performance between these two groups is 11 .86% . (See table 2, panel A .) International Business Machines Corp . (IBM) is an excellent example of good corporate governance . It had an industry CGQ of 96 .3, a 3-year return 11 .67% above the industry average, a 5-year return 5 .90% above the industry average, and a 10-year return 19 .09% above the industry average . Another example is Occidental Petroleum Corp . It had an industry CGQ of 99 .5, a 3-year return 24 .35% above the industry average, a 5-year return 9 .75% above the industry average, and a 10-year return 5 .72% above the industry average . An example of poor corporate governance is Sholodge, Inc . It had an industry CGQ of 5 .1, a 3-year return 7 .55% below the industry average, a 5-year return 7 .09% below the industry average, and a 10-year return 19 .79% below the industry average . Another example is MediaBay, Inc . It had an industry CGQ of 9 .6, a 3-year return 34 .84% below the industry average, and a 5-year return 38 .78% below the industry average . We next examined whether firms with weaker corporate governance are less profitable than firms with stronger corporate governance . We found firms with weaker corporate governance to be less profitable . They have lower return on assets, lower return on average equity, lower return on average investment, lower return on equity, and lower return on investment than do firms with stronger governance . (See table 1, panel A) . Two examples follow . First, firms in the bottom decile ... 11 .67% above the industry average, a 5-year return 5 .90% above the industry average, and a 10-year return 19 .09% above the industry average . Another example is Occidental Petroleum Corp . It had an industry CGQ of 99 .5, a 3-year return 24 .35% above the industry average, a 5-year return 9 .75% above the industry average, and a 10-year return 5 .72% above the industry average . An example of poor corporate governance is Sholodge, Inc . It had an industry CGQ of 5 .1, a 3-year return 7 .55% below the industry average, a 5-year return 7 .09% below the industry average, and a 10-year return 19 .79% below the industry average . Another example is MediaBay, Inc . It had an industry CGQ of 9 .6, a 3-year return 34 .84% below the industry average, and a 5-year return 38 .78% below the industry average . We next examined whether firms with weaker corporate governance are less profitable than firms with stronger corporate governance . We found firms with weaker corporate governance to be less profitable . They have lower return on assets, lower return on average equity, lower return on average investment, lower return on equity, and lower return on investment than do firms with stronger governance . (See table 1, panel A) . Two examples follow . First, firms in the bottom decile...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:32

... contribute to the literature on corporate governance indices and the connection between governance and firm value. We build a broad Indian Corporate Governance Index (ICGI) and examine the association ... sponsored by the Global Corporate Governance Forum and the Securities & Exchange Bureau of India, and the India–China Corporate Governance Conference, Virginia Beach for helpful comments and suggestions ... 2010b). Second, we contribute to the literature on corporate governance indices and the connection between governance and firm market value. We build a broad Indian Corporate Governance Index Emerging...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... filings, and other documents, especially the minutes and documents relating to the General Meeting of Shareholders, the company Articles of Association, and from the public media and other sources ... compared the corporate governance practices score of the financials industry with those of all other nonfinancial industries, the financial industry (45.8) performed better in corporate governance ... efficiency and productivity gains for individual companies and their investors, and the results then have positive impact on the overall economy (OECD, 2004). Recognizing the importance of corporate...

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... performance of the CEO and consequently, the firm’s performance. Boards are asked to evaluate and improve their own performance and therefore, the corporate governance practices of Corporate Ownership ... comparison of corporate governance systems in the U.S., UK and Germany 24 Steven M. Mintz This paper compares corporate governance principles in the U.S., UK, and Germany. The U.S. and UK represent ... post-socialist Poland and the emergent model of corporate governance is conditioned both by internal dynamics - such as previous corporate arrangements and the origins of the commercial law - and by external...

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