CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Background of Study
Recently, there are numbers of companies who had faced financial problems leading their business toward insolvency. These problem should be detected well before a financial debt crisis occured. Previous empirical study by (Mikkelson and Ruback, 1985 and Holderness and Sheehan 1985) have confirmed that the company may be in financial trouble due to sudden inventory build-up or decline in the inventory turnover rate, rapid rise in debt-to-equity ratio or there is high employee turnover in the department. Pertaining to this outcome; owners should resist the temptation to take on additional debt until they have finalized the causes of their company’s financial challenges. Board of directors (BOD) should be able to deal with company financial problems which related to debt restructuring and refinancing. BOD should also helps in rearranging the company’s structure, and provide no-obligation consultation to review company’s challenges to ensure that the company come back on track.
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The company have been severely criticized by the public for a lack of transparency in its business dealings. Both sides chose not to continue with some joint-venture projects. Due to this particular case, Tun Mahathir Mohamed, Malaysian’s former prime minister, express his worried and want this case to solve as soon as possible in order to avoid foreign exchange losses. Currently, the government had formed a committee to tackle this issue legitimately. Hence, corporate governance and shareholder monitoring are two major components that need to be included in order to justified the
Thus, they are in a position to cover any debt obligations that may come up quickly. Their inventory turnover has been relatively steady over the five years of data. In year 7 their inventory turnover reached 3.2 which means inventory is moving through to customers at an increased rate over the year which correlates with their increased sales. This statement is supported by the fact that the days inventory held for stoves has dropped over the past five years from 146 days in year 3 to 114 days in year 7. These reductions have allowed for the reduction of their days in accounts payable from 51 all the way down to 11.
The Failure of Dick Smith Electronics Identify: How the latest edition (3rd) of the ASX Corporate Governance Principles plausibly halts the failure of Dick Smith Electronics (DSE) will be discussed in this essay. I argue that 3rd of ASX Corporate Governance Principles might not be the best corporate governance practices for the listed entities in Australia. As can be seen from the DSE case, it complied with the majority of the principles and recommendations, but the DSE’s collapse still happened. Therefore, the better application of this practices should be developed.
Introduction The main objective of this particular case study is to assist Victor Dubinski, the current CEO of Blaine Kitchenware, decide whether or not repurchasing shares and changing the firm’s capital structure in favor of more debt could actually be benefit the company and its shareholders. Blaine Kitchenware is a small cap, public company who focuses on selling various different residential kitchen appliances. Up until this point, the company has only used cash and equity financing to acquire independent kitchen appliance manufacturers, and expand into foreign markets abroad. Given their excess cash and lack of debt, Blaine Kitchenware is considered to be “over-liquid and under-leveraged” (Luehrman & Heilprin, 2009).
Answer 1) Strategically, what must Pan-Europa do to keep from becoming the victim of a hostile takeover? Considering the current financially bearish trend in Pan Europa, the entity needs to work on multiple yet chain corporate activities to avoid hostile takeover. Below are some strategies, which can be used by the company: i)
As stated in Principle 1, The Board of Directors directs the Group’s risk assessment, strategic planning, succession planning and financial and operational management to ensure that obligations to shareholders and other stakeholders are understood and met. The board of directors has a collective responsibility for the management of the group to make sure the group is on the way to approach to their objectives while the non-Executive Directors are responsible for bringing independent judgment and scrutiny to decisions taken by the Board of Directors and providing objective challenges to management. Besides, the board of directors also function as formalising and adopting a set of Code of Ethics through the Code of Conduct as Recommendation 1.3 as stated in the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance 2012 to make sure its compliance, establishing an appropriate set of corporate disclosure policies and procedures and ensuring a whistleblowing mechanism is in place. The Board of Directors recognizes the importance of independence and objectivity in its decision making process. The Directors are professionals of high calibre and integrity and possess in-depth knowledge and experience of the business to enable them to discharge their duties effectively.
AJINOMOTO (Malaysia) Berhad Part 1: COMPANY BACKGROUND According to Bloomberg, Ajinomoto (Malaysia) Berhad founded in 1961. It was the first Japanese companies that set up in Malaysia. It is acting as producer of Monosodium Glutamate. It produces and sells the monosodium glutamate.