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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE
Answers to Concept Questions
1. In the corporate form of ownership, the shareholders are the owners of the firm. The
shareholders elect the directors of the corporation, who in turn appoint the firm’s
management. This separation of ownership from control in the corporate form of
organization is what causes agency problems to exist. Management may act in its own
or someone else’s best interests, rather than those of the shareholders. If such events
occur, they may contradict the goal of maximizing the share price of the equity of the
firm.
2. Such organizations frequently pursue social or political missions, so many different
goals are conceivable. One goal that is often cited is revenue minimization; i.e., provide
whatever goods and services are offered at the lowest possible cost to society. A better
approach might be to observe that even a not-for-profit business has equity. Thus, one
answer is that the appropriate goal is to maximize the value of the equity.
3. Presumably, the current stock value reflects the risk, timing, and magnitude of all
future cash flows, both short-term and long-term. If this is correct, then the statement is
false.
4. An argument can be made either way. At the one extreme, we could argue that in a
market economy, all of these things are priced. There is thus an optimal level of, for
example, ethical and/or illegal behavior, and the framework of stock valuation explicitly
includes these. At the other extreme, we could argue that these are non-economic
phenomena and are best handled through the political process. A classic (and highly
relevant) thought question that illustrates this debate goes something like this: “A firm
has estimated that the cost of improving the safety of one of its products is $30 million.
However, the firm believes that improving the safety of the product will only save $20
million in product liability claims. What should the firm do?”
5. The goal will be the same, but the best course of action toward that goal may be
different because of differing social, political, and economic institutions.
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6. The goal of management should be to maximize the share price for the current
shareholders. If management believes that it can improve the profitability of the firm so
that the share price will exceed $35, then they should fight the offer from the outside
company. If management believes that this bidder, or other unidentified bidders, will
actually pay more than $35 per share to acquire the company, then they should still fight
the offer. However, if the current management cannot increase the value of the firm
beyond the bid price, and no other higher bids come in, then management is not acting
in the interests of the shareholders by fighting the offer. Since current managers often
lose their jobs when the corporation is acquired, poorly monitored managers have an
incentive to fight corporate takeovers in situations such as this.
7.We would expect agency problems to be less severe in other countries, primarily due
to the relatively small percentage of individual ownership. Fewer individual owners
should reduce the number of diverse opinions concerning corporate goals. The high
percentage of institutional ownership might lead to a higher degree of agreement
between owners and managers on decisions concerning risky projects. In addition,
institutions may be better able to implement effective monitoring mechanisms on
managers than can individual owners, based on the institutions’ deeper resources and
experiences with their own management.
8. The increase in institutional ownership of stock in the United States and the growing
activism of these large shareholder groups may lead to a reduction in agency problems
for U.S. corporations and a more efficient market for corporate control. However, this
may not always be the case. If the managers of the mutual fund or pension plan are not
concerned with the interests of the investors, the agency problem could potentially
remain the same, or even increase, since there is the possibility of agency problems
between the fund and its investors.
9. How much is too much? Who is worth more, Larry Ellison or Tiger Woods? The
simplest answer is that there is a market for executives just as there is for all types of
labor. Executive compensation is the price that clears the market. The same is true for
athletes and performers. Having said that, one aspect of executive compensation
deserves comment. A primary reason executive compensation has grown so
dramatically is that companies have increasingly moved to stock-based compensation.
Such movement is obviously consistent with the attempt to better align stockholder and
management interests. In recent years, stock prices have soared, so management has
cleaned up. It is sometimes argued that much of this reward is due to rising stock prices
in general, not managerial performance. Perhaps in the future, executive compensation
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will be designed to reward only differential performance, i.e., stock price increases in
excess of general market increases.
10. Maximizing the current share price is the same as maximizing the future share price
at any future period. The value of a share of stock depends on all of the future cash
flows of company. Another way to look at this is that, barring large cash payments to
shareholders, the expected price of the stock must be higher in the future than it is
today. Who would buy a stock for $100 today when the share price in one year is
expected to be $80?
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