Gitman: Principl Manageri Finance_15 (15th Edition) (What's New in Finance)
Gitman: Principl Manageri Finance_15 (15th Edition) (What's New in Finance)
15th Edition
ISBN: 9780134476315
Author: Chad J. Zutter, Scott B. Smart
Publisher: PEARSON
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To discuss: The meaning of agency problems and way wherein an agency problem provides increase in an agency cost.

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An authorized person who acts on the behalf of another person or investor to buy or sell securities is termed as agent. The person who appoints the agent is termed as principal.

Summary Introduction

To discuss: The way wherein the corporate governance structure helps to avoid agency problems.

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The way wherein the stakeholders of a company control the affairs of the firm to guarantee their return on investment is termed as corporate governance.

The managers of the firm are appointed to work in the best interest of the investors. In a corporation, the control of an organizational structure and separation of ownership will give rise to conflicting interest. Every managers face ethical dilemma of whose interest to serve their own or the investors to whom he/she is responsible. This agency conflict takes place when there are different stakeholders in an organization because everyone will have their own interests.

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Define agency problems, and describe how they give rise to agency costs. Explain how a firm’s corporate governance structure can help avoid agency problems.
Discuss the agency costs in the Agency Theory in corporate governance and solutions applied thereto.
Corporate governance is defined as "the set of laws, rules, and procedures that influence the company's operations and the decisions its managers make."  Agency costs are "the reductions in a company's value due to actions by agents (managers), including the costs principals (shareholders) incur (such as monitoring costs) trying to modify their agents' behaviors." Corporate governance provisions are set in place as way to help minimize the agency conflict within a firm. Not one provision alone completely eliminates the potential for all agency conflict. As a result, multiple governance provisions are typically in place at a firm to help minimize the risk.  The book lists 5 common internal governance provisions: monitoring and discipline (threat to fire) by the board of directors charter provisions and bylaws that affect the likelihood of hostile takeovers (remember that in general: shareholders like hostile takeovers, managers do not) compensation plans capital structure choices…

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