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A 6 page paper offering several questions and rationale for them. The questions are to constitute a more involved survey of senior financial managers, a companion to a 21-item survey including questions requiring only short answers and rating on a Likert-type scale. Those questions are contained in KSacctCorpGov2.rtf, which also provides the literature and proposed method for a study of how changes in financial reporting standards affect corporate governance and senior financial managers’ behavior and perceptions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSacctCorpGvSur.rtf
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effort to formulate some of the proposed questions to be included in a survey of senior financial managers of firms listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Though the
study likely will replicate much of one conducted by Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal (2004), other approaches also are worthy of consideration (Strebel, 2004; Allaire and Firsirotu, 2003). Centering the Study
Eiteman, Stonehill and Moffett (2001) explain that there are two primary approaches to wealth maximization among the worlds large firms. The first,
the shareholder wealth maximization (SWM) model, characterizes the wealth maximization approach of Anglo-American markets. This model assumes that markets are efficient, and that the "share price is always correct
because it captures all the expectations of return and risk as seen by investors" (Eiteman, Stonehill and Moffett, 2001; p. 7). Share price is a measure that quickly incorporates
new information; share "prices are deemed the best allocators of capital in the macro economy" (Eiteman, Stonehill and Moffett, 2001; p. 7). The other primary approach to wealth maximization
is the corporate wealth maximization (CWM) model, which diminishes shareholder value and seeks to build for the future in terms seen as being good for the firm first. The
CWM approach is common in "Continental European and Japanese equity markets" (Eiteman, Stonehill and Moffett, 2001; p. 7), but is not relevant to the research questions to be posed for
this study. Therefore, all of the questions proposed for this more involved questionnaire relate to senior financial managers efforts to guard, protect and increase share price in light of
greater scrutiny of financial corporate governance activities. Proposed Questions Question 1 Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal (2004) include in their survey of financial executives,
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