Governance Mechanisms As Moderators Of Agency Costs In A Pre-SOX Environment

Agency costs, corporate governance and the Fiji Sugar Corporation

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 2 2006 © Asia Pacific Press The Fiji Sugar Corporation, the sole miller in Fiji, has experienced declining financial performance for over a decade, despite Fiji enjoying sugar prices two to three times the average world price. The corporation’s poor financial performance has primarily been blamed on the increase in burnt cane. This paper tests the impo...

the significance of conjunction as a cohesive device in teaching writing

the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...

Governance as a Service for Collaborative Environment

In a highly competitive and collaborative network environment, enterprises have to focus on their core competencies and to increase internal and external collaboration to provide more efficient services to meet various needs of markets. However, governance is still one of the most important challenges for collaborative enterprises. Some studies on collaborative networks just focus on technologi...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

the relationship of corporate governance mechanisms with costs of the agencies of iranian companies

this study attempts to investigate the impacts of severalcorporate governance mechanisms on two alternative proxies for agencycosts, namely the ratio of total sales to total assets (asset turnover) and theratio of selling, general and administrative expenses to total sales(sg&a;). agency costs, non-executive directors on the board, andinstitutional investors are dependent variables. the analysi...