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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

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ISBN:9781259964947

Author:Libby

Publisher:Libby

Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions

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Discuss some of the agency problems your client might encounter

and explain how such agency problems can be resolved.

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Step 1

Some agency problems that client may face are:

Conflict between owners of the firm and managers hired by it.
Conflict between those having controlling interest and those having non-controlling interest.
Conflict between the firm itself- including owners and other parties like customers, creditors, employees.

Step 2

Such agency problems can be resolved in the following ways:

First problem can be resolved by following ways:

Managers can be threatened of firing in case of non-performance.
Remuneration must be given on performance based.
Having a voluntary code of ethics for managers.
By incurring agency costs.

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