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1 How can accounting bonuses be an effective means to align managers' incentives with shareholders'? Why isn't stock-based compensation sufficient?
2 Explain the role of stock options in creating incentives for executives.
3. Explain the practice of backdating options, and state why this practice is unethical.
4. How might the practice of granting golden parachutes to executives be in shareholders' interests?
5. Explain the horizon problem and the role it plays in conflicts between managers and shareholders.
6. Explain the role the takeover market plays in disciplining managers. How does a staggered board make a takeover more difficult?
7. What is a proxy fight? Given the costs of a proxy fight, why would activist shareholders wage these as part of an investment strategy?
8. What is a poison pill, and why does this strategy discourage a takeover?
9. Why should analysts be aware of anti-takeover amendments? Provide a scenario where such amendments would lead to a sell recommendation and one with a buy.
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Perfrormance feedback method
: The 360 degree feedback seems to work best. Why do you think this particular perfrormance feedback method works well?
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Define global integration as used in strategic management
: What might have accounted for this change in strategy? In your answer, include a discussion of the implications from the standpoints of marketing, production, and finance.
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Effectiveness of in-person and phone interviews
: Compare and contrast the purpose, usefulness, and effectiveness of in-person and phone interviews from both the perspective of the job applicant and the organization
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Analyze the key approaches that your negotiation team
: Analyze the key approaches that your negotiation team should use in order to research both the government negotiators attending the negotiation session and the governments overall operations and Examine similar equipment that your company's competi..
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How can accounting bonuses be an effective
: How can accounting bonuses be an effective means to align managers' incentives with shareholders'? Why isn't stock-based compensation sufficient?
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Decrease in the corporate tax rate
: To accurately reflect the costs associated with a project, the analyst should exclude interest expenses in the computation of operating cash flows - A decrease in the corporate tax rate decreases the value of the depreciation tax shield, all else e..
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Describe the firms in the proposed merger
: Describe the firms in the proposed merger. List their annual sales, and extent of their operations. From the firms' point of view, what are some of the incentives to consolidate?
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A share of common stock has just paid a dividend
: A share of common stock has just paid a dividend of $2.00. If the expected long-run growth rate for this stock is 6.0%, and if investors' required rate of return is 10.5%, what is the stock's intrinsic value?
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Production points along a production possibilities curve
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