Shareholder Wealth Maximization

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

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

Question

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)

Answer

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Level: Level 3

Topic: Corporate Governance and Financial Strategy
Series: NOV 2017

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.

Question

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)

Answer

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Tags: Constraints, Decision Making, Optimizing, Profit Maximization, Satisficing, Shareholder Wealth Maximization

Topic: Decision making techniques
Series: NOV 2019

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

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

Question

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)

Answer

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Tags: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Director Incentives, Financial objectives, Private Sector, Shareholder Wealth Maximization, Stakeholder Objectives
Level: Level 3

Topic: Corporate Governance and Financial Strategy
Series: NOV 2017

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.

Question

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)

Answer

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Tags: Constraints, Decision Making, Optimizing, Profit Maximization, Satisficing, Shareholder Wealth Maximization

Topic: Decision making techniques
Series: NOV 2019

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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