If you are a voting Google shareholder, how are you better off after the stock split? Page, Brin, and Schmidt have “protected Google from outside pressures,” buy why, and what are these pressures?
What is the theoretical link between firm value and leverage? What is the behavioral effect of leverage that may affect this link?
Should the FASB have pushed for more qualitative disclosures about going concern? What would be the downside?
Describe the nature of the problem between a bank’s research division and its investment banking division. What are the concerns about the breach in the “Chinese Wall”?
If special accommodations are made for Islamic law, how would this contravene the goal of a single set of global standards?
Why is Jarden buying back its own stock? How did they determine that now is the “right time” to do so?
Using lingo from agency theory, respond to the following: “directors would often overlook missed targets and award big bonuses anyway.”
Do you think the Supreme Court will uphold the healthcare law? If so, how might the law affect corporate decisions with respect to obligations (health care, pensions, etc.) in relation to their employees?
Do you agree it’s the “accounting lobby” stopping the bill because they’d lose SOX section 404 audit fees? Is this a case of over-regulation to the detriment of private capital formation and job creation?
What would you do with $100 billion in “cash” (liquidity)? Is too much liquidity a “bad thing?” If so, why?
Should executive pay be tied to increases in net income that resulted from a release of a previously booked reserve? Should AIG be allowed to keep the deferred tax assets for operating loss carryforwards, even though it was “bought out” by taxpayers?
