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The balanced scorecard has been hailed as one of the major developments in management accounting in the last decade. Lipe and Salterio (2000) show that one of the key features of this development, the inclusion of measures that are unique to the strategic objectives of a business unit, tend to...
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Business executives and academics frequently criticize budget-based compensation plans as providing incentives for subordinates to build slack into proposed budgets. In this paper, we examine whether either of two practices - using budgets to allocate scarce resources, or providing information...
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There has been increasing interest in firms in which workers strongly identify with their firm's success. It would seem apparent that such identification by workers should be considered as an integral element of the firm's control systems. However, much of the literature on the myriad forms of...
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In my paper, I have managed to achieve full convergence of the results of valuation executed by four methods (CCF, APV, DCF and CFE), provided that cash flow is generated throughout the year (Mid-Year Convention). I have shown that convergence among all methods can be achieved whether we use the...
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The interrelationships between cash flows, corresponding discount rates and values follow certain rules, knowing which one can quite easily and correctly find out value of given cash flow using the discounting-by-components framework, or to find the correct formulation of the discount rate for...
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There is a lot of confusion among practitioners about valuing firms and investment projects. At the first sight the discounting procedure is a simple and routine task, which does not involve much effort. But actually even in simple cases accurate valuation requires attention to plenty of...
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There is an ongoing dispute about the assumption of reinvesting intermediate cash flows at cost of capital in calculation of NPV and at IRR in calculation of implied yield to maturity. The lack of conclusive evidence lends support to confusion around the issue. This paper provides logical and...
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The English version of this article is available at: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214674" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214674.En estas diapositivas se discute la dificultad práctica y conceptual de la búsqueda de una estructura óptima de capital EOC. Se propone un enfoque normativo que llamamos...
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La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214703" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214703.In these slides we discuss the practical and conceptual difficulty of finding an Optimal Capital Structure. We propose a normative approach we call Implicit...
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