Answer:
impulsively stopping persons on the street to inquire about their buying habits
Explanation:
For businesses which are to be started, conducting marketing research can help the business know the products that would generate profits while for existing businesses, market research help companies to determine if their customers are satisfied with their services. Ways of conducting market research are:
- Conducting interviews through phone calls or person to person.
- sending questionnaires by mail or placing them online
- Conducting online surveys
- Buying information from commercial or governmental data sources.
Using information from commercial or governmental data sources may not be reliable because it may be outdated.
Answer:
Agency conflicts between managers and shareholders
1. A New Beginning (ANB)
A. Yes; Alexander is misappropriating some of Akiko's wealth by unilaterally purchasing a nonbusiness asset using ANB's funds.
2. The Green Zone Inc. (TGZ):
B. No; although an agency relationship exists between TGZ's management-including Tae as TGZ's chairman and CEO and the firm's shareholders-there is no agency conflict, because no expropriation or wasting of the shareholders' wealth has occurred.
3. In the best interest of shareholders, compensation packages should be structured in a way such that managers have an incentive to maximize the__LONG-TERM____value of the company's common stock price.
4. In addition to well-designed executive compensation packages, two other motivational forces can align the interests of managers with those of their shareholders.
a. Reward the manager with a combination of salary and stock options
b. Let the manager to understand that a takeover can happen if she does not perform well.
5. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Congress passed legislation making it more difficult for outside investors to stage hostile takeovers. This legislation likely__increases____conflicts between managers and stockholders.
Explanation:
Agency conflicts of interest exist in any relationship where one party is expected to act in another's best interests. Agency problems or conflicts of interest usually exist between a company's management and the company's stockholders. But, it can equally exist in a relationship where one party acts against the interest of the other.
Answer:
a. It is serving the bottom of the pyramid.
Explanation:
By serving the bottom of the pyramid (impoverished community), the company is giving back to the community.
The water purifiers are cheap when mass-produced, so by partnering with people from this region they will be able to effectively distribute the incentive.
Also this is an avenue for the indegenes to earn income as commission.
Answer: (B)
Explanation: so you can save your money that is the wi way
Answer: $38.39
Explanation:
First calculate the required return according to CAPM;
Required return = Risk free rate + beta ( market return - risk free rate)
= 2.50% + 0.97 ( 11% - 2.50%)
= 10.745%
Then using the Dividend discount model and remembering that there is no growth rate;
Value = Next dividend / ( required return - growth rate)
= (50 * 8.25%) / ( 10.745% - 0)
= 4.125/10.745%
= $38.39
