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Chapter 4 - Corporate Governance Around the World
Governance and the Public Corporation
Agency
Incentives
Capital Markets and Valuation
Promotion of Economic Growth
Reform
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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Governance and the Public Corporation
The public corporation, is jointly owned by many shareholders protected with limited liability; - this includes C, S, LLC, LLP
It is an efficient risk sharing mechanism that allows corporations to raise large amounts of capital.
A key weakness is the conflict of interest between managers and shareholders.
In principle, shareholders elect a board of directors, who in turn hire and fire the managers who actually run the company.
In reality, management-friendly insiders often dominate the board of directors, with relatively few outside directors who can independently monitor the management.
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Governance and the Public Corporation
In the case of Enron, Tyco, WorldCom and other dysfunctional corporations, the CEO and boards of directors grossly failed to safeguard shareholder and other stakeholders interests.
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Agency Shareholders allocate decision-making authority to the managers. Many shareholders are not qualified to make complex business
decisions. A shareholder with a diversified portfolio would not have the time
to devote to making the numerous decisions at each of the many companies. Kohl, Belzberg, Pritzkers.
Having the short-term control of the firm’s assets, managers might be tempted to act in the manager’s short-term best interest instead of the shareholder’s long-term best interest. Enron, Tyco and WorldCom.
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Agency In the U.S., shareholders have the right to elect the board
of directors. If the board remains independent of management, it can
serve as an effective mechanism for curbing the agency problem.
In Japan, most corporate boards are insider-dominated and primarily concerned with the welfare of the keiretsu to which the company belongs.
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Incentives Incentives are designed as a compensation scheme that
gives executives an incentive to work hard at increasing shareholder wealth.
Executive stock options are an increasingly popular form of incentive compatible with increasing shareholder wealth.
Executive Stock Options in essence, exist to align the interests of shareholders and managers.
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Capital Markets and Valuation
Investor protection promotes the development of external capital markets.
When investors are assured of receiving fair returns on their funds, they will be willing to pay more for securities.
Thus strong investor protection will be conducive to large capital markets.
Weak investor protection can be a factor in sharp market declines during a financial crisis.
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Promotion of Economic Growth
The continuation of well-developed financial markets, promoted by strong investor protection, may stimulate economic growth by making funds readily available for investment at low cost.
Financial development can contribute to economic growth in many ways, including:
– It enhances savings.– It channels savings toward real investments in productive
capacities.– It enhances the efficiency of investment allocation.
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Reform In recent years, Companies’ internal governance
mechanisms, external auditors, regulators, banks, and institutional investors have all failed in their respective roles.
If we now Fail to reform corporate governance, this will damage investor confidence, inhibit the development of capital markets, raise the cost of capital, alter capital allocation, and even destroy confidence in the capitalist system itself.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
– Accounting regulation– Audit committee– Internal control assessment– Executive responsibility
Will The Sarbanes-Oxley cure all greed and white color
crime?
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Liquidity Ratios Current ratio – Current assets/Current liabilities
Quick ratio - Cash, receivables, s-t investments /Current liabilities
Receivable turnover – Sales/Average receivables
Inventory turnover – Cost of goods sold/Average inventory
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Profitability Ratios Profit margin – Net income/Net sales
Asset turnover – Net sales/Average assets
Return on assets – Net income/Average total
assets
Return on equity (ROE) – Net income/
Average common
stockholders equity
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Profitability Ratios
Earnings per share (EPS) – Net Income/Weighted
and a measure of ROI average common
shares outstanding Price-earnings ratio (P-E) – Market price per share/
also called multiples Earning per share
Payout ratio – Cash dividends/Net income
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Solvency Ratios Debt to equity ratio – Debt/Equity (use this ratio)
Debt to total asset ratio – Total debt/Total assets
Times interest earned – EBIT/Interest expense
Free cash flow – Cash provided by operating
activities – capital expenditures
- Cash dividends
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Financial Analysis of Int’l Corporation
Corporation – 10K (insert)
Balance Sheet Income Statement Statements of Cash flows
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Developing Target Prices and Target Costs
1. Develop a product that satisfies the needs of potential customers
2. Choose a target price
3. Derive a target cost per unit:– Target Price per unit minus Target Operating Income
per unit
4. Perform cost analysis
5. Perform engineering to achieve target cost
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Cost – Plus PricingThe formula for setting a cost-based price is to add a markup component to the cost base:
Cost base $ 1.00 Markup component – 30% .30 Prospective selling price $ 1.30 =====
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Starbucks – Capital Raising
Page 9 - $400,000, subsequently, $1.25 million Page 10 – Actual - $1.65 million, including $400,000 (ability to raise capital) Page 10 – Purchases Starbucks for $3.8 million Page 13 – Raises $13 million (why and how) Page 14 – IPO 1.5 million shares, $29 million (what does it take to do an IPO)?
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Starbucks - Franchise Page 18 – Why not franchise at maturity? Brand equity and trademark. Page 2 – Alliances, why? Compare with Disney and Nike, benefits. Page 22 – Licensing with Kraft at maturity, why? Page 23 – Purchase of Seattle’s Best, why?
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Starbucks - International
Strategies
1. Differentiation
2. Cost leader
3. Technology
4. Where to expand and why?