More Than a Numbers Game A Brief Histor y of Accounting Thomas A. King John Wiley & Sons, Inc. More Than a Numbers Game More Than a Numbers Game A Brief Histor y of Accounting Thomas A. King John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2006 by Thomas A. King. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HOW DOES CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RISK AT HOME AFFECT INVESTMENT CHOICES ABROAD? Woochan Kim Taeyoon Sung Shang-Jin Wei Working Paper 13721 http://www.nber.org/papers/w13721 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 January 2008 We thank Marianne Bertrand, Bernard Black, Bernado Bortolotti, Stijn Claessens, Mara Faccio, John Griffin, Simon Johnson, Kate Litvak, seminar participants at Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School
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Statements as at 31 December 2010 Registered Office Level 18, Tower 2, Etiqa Twins, 11 Jalan Pinang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur KUWAIT FINANCE HOUSE (MALAYSIA) BERHAD (672174-T) (Incorporated in Malaysia) CONTENTS PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW STATEMENT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DIRECTORS' REPORT STATEMENT BY DIRECTORS STATUTORY DECLARATION REPORT OF SHARIAH COMMITTEE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION INCOME STATEMENTS STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
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1 HOTEL OWNER / OPERATOR STRUCTURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR CAPITAL BUDGETING PROCESS Chris GUILDING Service Industry Research Centre, and School of Accounting and Finance Griffith University – Gold Coast Campus Queensland AUSTRALIA C.Guilding@griffith.edu.au Tel: (07) 5552 8790 Fax: (07) 5552 8068 I am grateful for funding support for this study provided by the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism. I would also like to acknowledge the helpful comments
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manage many issues specific to their status. Sir Adrian Cadbury’s long and distinguished business career was built on his dual expertise in both corporate governance and family firms. A recognised authority on the former, he led the committee which laid the foundations for corporate governance in the UK. Thereafter, he played a crucial role in developing corporate governance standards in many other countries. Sir Adrian also has a first-hand understanding of family firms. His career began with his own
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(TILEC), Tilburg, The Netherlands AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier. 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
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STAMFORD UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH Assignment On: Capital Structure Analysis of Lafarge Surma Cement Limited Course Title: Finance Theory Course Code: FIN -608 Submit To Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury, ACA Assistant Professor, Dept. of Finance, University of Dhaka Submit By Md. Jahidul Islam; ID: MBA-05014570 Jabun Nahar; ID: MBA 05014443 Rajib Kumar Saha; ID: MBA 05014533 Date of submission 17th April 2013 Letter of Transmittal April 17, 2013 Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury, ACA Assistant
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Harvard Business School 9-282-042 Rev. September 15, 1986 Marriott Corporation The idea of repurchasing shares was no stranger to Bill Marriott by January 1980. Almost five million shares of common stock had been repurchased on the open market by Marriott Corporation during 1979 at a total cost of $74 million and an average price of $15.16 in the belief that they were undervalued—a belief that still was not fully reflected in the market price. At $19 5/8, the stock was selling at only
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1. Introduction Freeport-McMoRan also called Freeport or FCX in New York Stock Exchange, operates in exploration, mining and refining of ore containing copper, gold and silver. Freeport’s synergy in creating the world’s largest publicly traded natural resources was initiated through the merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Investment banks, J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch play a key role as a financial assistance to advice Freeport in the merger and acquisition transactions. On November
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............................................................ 5 Management Discussion & Analysis .................................................................... 8 Corporate Governance ......................................................................................... 22 Auditors’ Certificate on compliance of Corporate Governance ........................... 28 Shareholders’
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