Goal of the Financial Manager

• The Agency Issue

  • Since managers are (most often) nonowners of a firm, the potential of their placing personal goals ahead of corporate goals creates an agency problem
  • Market forces tend to ensure the competence of management and minimize agency problems
  • To minimize the agency problem, stockholders incur agency costs

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Copyright

• 1994, HarperCollins Publishers

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