ijcrb.webs.com SEPTEMBER 2012 VOL 4, NO 5 INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS The Impact of Adopting Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Financial Performance: Evidence from Jordanian Banks Sulaiman R. Weshah Accounting Department, Amman College for finance and administration studies, Al Balqa applied university, Amman, Jordan Dr. Ahmad A. Dahiyat (Corresponding author) Accounting Department, Amman College for finance and administration studies, Al Balqa
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stockholders the right to elect the directors, who then hire the executives who actually run the company. The directors, as representatives of the stockholders, determine managers’ compensation, presumably rewarding them if performance is superior or replacing them if performance is poor. Of course, there are some constraints on what management can do when working to create value for stockholders. Management can’t engage in illegal employment practices, create monopolies to exploit consumers, violate
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company was created as a result of a merge between Netherlands’ Royal Dutch and UK’s Shell Corporation. The case looks at the issue of price differentials between several equity listings in different markets from the perspective of investors seeking an arbitrage opportunity. Royal Dutch trades more actively in the Netherlands and U.S. markets, whereas Shell trades more actively in the United States. The result is that the Royal Dutch/Shell relative price moves positively with the Netherlands and
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Northampton Group Inc. – Case Study Analyses: How to increase shareholder value Nicole Arends, Jenny Feng, Laura Tromp & Zilha Wever FHTMS University of Aruba Mr. Don Taylor Corporate Finance FTS 2415 March 26, 2013 Introduction This Corporate Finance paper focuses on analyzing the challenges that Northampton Group Inc. (NGI) is facing as it tries to increase shareholder value. In the case study it is stated by the firm’s major shareholders, that they believe
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illustrate a basic reflection about the Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd. The report will present the overall scenario of Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd. The report will cover the information of the bank, present condition of the bank in private banking sector, market share, and various products schemes of SJBL, interest rate of the bank etc. The report will also include various activities done under general banking operation. The activities of dispatch, the procedures of account opening, procedures of inland remittance
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“explain” and “predict” accounting practice. • “Explanation” means providing reasons for observed practice. For example, positive accounting theory seeks to explain why firms continue to use historical cost accounting and why certain firms switch between a numbers of accounting techniques. • “Prediction” of accounting practice means that the theory predicts “unobserved phenomena”. “Unobserved phenomena” are not necessarily future phenomena; they include phenomena that have occurred, but on which
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(1998-2002) Although Braddock was a privately held company during this time, the long-term incentive plan involved a stock-based component (case Exhibit 4) and as well as an annual performance bonus based on the matrix illustrated in case Exhibit 6. The good * Since management compensation is tied to firm performance, managers are incentivized to keep costs under control and maintain profitability. However, it is important to balance cost-controls with long-term growth. * The 5-year measurement
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serve often under-appreciated roles as payment agents within a country and between nations. Not only do banks issue debit cards that allow account holders to pay for goods with the swipe of a card, they can also arrange wire transfers with other institutions. Banks essentially underwrite financial transactions by lending their reputation and credibility to the transaction; a check is basically just a promissory note between two people, but without a bank's name and information on that note, no merchant
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Why did FedEx’s stock price outstrip UPS’s during the initiation of talks over liberalized air cargo routes between the U.S. and China? Assuming a perfectly efficient stock market, how might one interpret a 14% increase in FedEx’s market value of equity? • How have FedEx and UPS performed since the early 1990s? Which firm is doing better? In class, prepare to discuss the insights you derived from the two firms’ financial statements, financial ratios, stock-price performance, and economic profit (economic
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dealing in shares of company after equity salesman gave him information about proposed placement of company's shares - whether s.270(1)(e) elements that equity salesman "connected person", fund manager's knowledge that equity salesman was "connected person", and "relevant information" established - objective test for "connected person" - Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap.571) s.270(1)(e) | Facts: *786 C, a listed company, wished to raise money by a top-up placement of its shares (the Placement)
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