...Management Accounting Essay Critique Managerial Empire Building, Corporate Governance, and the Asymmetrical Behavior of Selling, General, and Administrative Costs 1 Management Accounting Essay Critique Main aim of essay critique is to evaluate the results of the research paper The main aim of this essay critique is to evaluate some of the results between corporate governance and the asymmetrical behavior of cost, namely selling, general and administrative (SG&A). It will also discuss pertinent points concerning corporate governance and the limitations of this study. There are a few important findings in this paper The purpose of this research paper is to examine whether managerial incentive is an additional explanation from the SG&A cost asymmetry and whether corporate governance plays an important role in mitigating this asymmetry. A secondary objective would be to examine whether the SG&A asymmetry manifests itself as either cost stickiness or cost speediness and whether corporate governance mitigates cost asymmetry through reducing cost stickiness, cost speediness or both. The results are as follow: 1) It was able to provide substantial evidence to explain the SG&A cost asymmetry phenomenon from the agency theory perspective (managerial incentive). 2) Besides that, it yielded a negative relationship between corporate governance and SG&A cost asymmetry. 3) For its secondary objective, the paper substantiated its concept of “cost speediness”, which provides an...
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...& SingTel Annual Report 2014 This Year's Report CoNTENTS overview an overview of our business, providing details on how we performed, key events and achievements from the past year, as well as our strategy moving forward Our Vision and Mission Our Mobile Reach What Differentiates Us Our Strategy An Exciting Year Chairman's Statement GCEO Review 01 02 04 05 06 08 10 12 buSineSS review insight into each of our business units SuSTainabiliTy and governance information on our organisation structure, management team, corporate governance, risk management and sustainability efforts 16 24 30 36 Board of Directors Organisation Structure Management Committee Senior Management Sustainability and Governance Philosophy Corporate Governance Investor Relations Risk Management Philosophy and Approach Sustainability 39 44 45 48 49 50 70 72 80 Group Consumer Group Enterprise Group Digital L!fe Key Awards and Accolades performance our performance at a glance financialS audited financial statements for the year ended 31 march 2014 89 91 92 Directors’ Report Statement of Directors Independent Auditors’ Report Consolidated Income Statement Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income Statements of Financial Position Statements of Changes in Equity Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows Notes to the Financial Statements 102 110 111 112 113 114 116 120 123 addiTional informaTion Shareholder and corporate information, as well as contact points for our offices worldwide...
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...ANNUAL REPORT 2014 reimagining energy TM Our Business Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) • Export Sector • Power Sector • Industrial Sector Regasification Terminal • Power Sector • •Power Sector Industrial Sector • Industrial Sector Natural Gas Liquefaction Peninsular Gas Utilisation (PGU) System • Residential and Commercial Sectors • Residential Sector • Commercial Sector Processed Gas Exploration, Development & Production Processing Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Condensate • Industrial Sector - Ethylene, Methanol, MTBE, • Industrial Sector Polyethylene, Propylene, Urea and VCM Olefin & Derivatives, Fertiliser & Methanol Crude Oil Condensate Petrochemical Plants • Transportation Sector - Diesel, Gasoline, Jet Fuel • Transportation Sector and Lubricants Jet Fuel, Gasoline, Diesel, Fuel Oil & Lubricants Refining Petroleum Products UPSTREAM 2 PETRONAS ANNUAL REPORT 2014 DOWNSTREAM Our Presence Upstream Downstream Upstream Africa • Algeria – Development • Cameroon – Development • Egypt – Exploration, Development, Production & LNG • Mauritania – Exploration, Development & Production • Mozambique – Exploration • Republic of South Sudan – Exploration, Development & Production • Republic of Sudan – Exploration, Development & Production • Chad – Development & Production Asia Pacific • Australia – Exploration, Development, Production & LNG • Brunei – Exploration • China...
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