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FM – Nov 2017 – L3 – Q5 – Corporate Governance and Financial Strategy

Identify stakeholder financial objectives and discuss methods to incentivize directors to maximize shareholder wealth.

Private sector companies have multiple stakeholders who are likely to have divergent interests.

Required:

(a) Identify FIVE stakeholder groups and discuss briefly their financial objectives.
(10 Marks)

(b) Explain ways in which companies’ directors can be encouraged to achieve the objective of maximisation of shareholders’ wealth.
(5 Marks)

(Total 15 Marks)

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MA – Nov 2019 – L2 – Q2a – Decision-Making Techniques

Explains how profit maximization leads to shareholder wealth maximization and how constraints, satisficing, and optimizing affect decision-making.

a) Management Accountants are often engaged in decision-making processes that would yield optimal results, given a limited amount of resources available. Such decisions are expected to yield to shareholder wealth maximization through the maximization of profits. Unfortunately, however, constraints sometimes lead to satisficing rather than optimizing decision making.

Required:
i) Explain how profit maximization can lead to shareholder wealth maximization. (4 marks)

ii) Explain how constraints, satisficing, and optimizing affect the management accountant’s decision-making. (6 marks)

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FM – Nov 2017 – L3 – Q5 – Corporate Governance and Financial Strategy

Identify stakeholder financial objectives and discuss methods to incentivize directors to maximize shareholder wealth.

Private sector companies have multiple stakeholders who are likely to have divergent interests.

Required:

(a) Identify FIVE stakeholder groups and discuss briefly their financial objectives.
(10 Marks)

(b) Explain ways in which companies’ directors can be encouraged to achieve the objective of maximisation of shareholders’ wealth.
(5 Marks)

(Total 15 Marks)

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MA – Nov 2019 – L2 – Q2a – Decision-Making Techniques

Explains how profit maximization leads to shareholder wealth maximization and how constraints, satisficing, and optimizing affect decision-making.

a) Management Accountants are often engaged in decision-making processes that would yield optimal results, given a limited amount of resources available. Such decisions are expected to yield to shareholder wealth maximization through the maximization of profits. Unfortunately, however, constraints sometimes lead to satisficing rather than optimizing decision making.

Required:
i) Explain how profit maximization can lead to shareholder wealth maximization. (4 marks)

ii) Explain how constraints, satisficing, and optimizing affect the management accountant’s decision-making. (6 marks)

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