A n entrepreneur is an individual with a project blueprint and limited wealth. If launching the project requires expenses that exceed the entrepreneur’s initial wealth, he needs outside financing. Entrepreneurs differ from “hired management” in that they are indispensable for the firm’s day-to-day operations. This is because entrepreneurs add value to companies perpetually, rather than by handi...

We examine whether and how a US cross-listing mitigates the risk that insiders will turn their firm’s cash holdings into private benefits. We find strong evidence that the value investors attach to excess cash reserves is substantially larger for foreign firms listed on US exchanges and over-the-counter than for their domestic peers. Further, we show that this excess-cash premium stems not only...

Using a sample of U.K. bidder companies from 1984 through 2007, we find that announcement returns are better for bidders of higher excess cash reserve. This suggests that acquisitions by high excess cash reserve bidders are not necessarily value-decreasing as is suggested by the agency theory and found in the U.S. market. Managers may need cash to ensure that all potential good investment oppor...

issuance value, redemption value and net value of issuance and redemption of investment units is called cash flow to mutual funds. this cash flow to mutual funds is used as an investor sentiment index, when there is significant relationship between cash flow to mutual funds and market return. in this paper, relationship between these two items is to be evaluated. monthly and weekly cash flow to...

one of the goals of financial reporting is to provide the useful information in order to facilitate the decision making. accounting information system is of high importance for the users to make specific decisions. the information should be analyzed to present the valuable information to the investors so that in this paper, the relative content and return additive with cash recovery have been a...

Last month, in this magazine, this author argued in Fixing Financial Statements: Financial Statement Overhaul that the traditional formats of the primary financial statements—income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement—need major redesign to again be useful for meaningful financial analysis, decision-making and value creation. Since the fundamental objective of a business is to inc...

Dividend policy has long been an issue of interest in the financial literature. To date, a number of studies published on agency costs and dividend policy but most of them are on developed markets, It is well known that the emerging markets are quite different from developed markets in all respects. So, the existing published evidence is of limited relevance in identifying the influence of agen...