BUSI 2503 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dividend Tax, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer
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1 of 24: as finance emerged as an analytical, decision oriented discipline, the initial emphasis was placed on capital acquisitions. True false: inflation is assumed to be a temporary problem that does not affect financial decisions. True false: timing is not a particularly important consideration in financial decisions. True false: institutional investors have had increasing influence over corporations with their ability to vote large blocks of stock and replace poor performing boards of directors. True false: insider trading involves the use of information not available to the general public to make profits from trading in a company"s shares. True false: agency theory assumes that corporate managers act to increase the wealth of corporate shareholders. True false: during the 1930s, the provincial government assumed a much greater role in regulating the securities industry. True false: the higher the profit of a firm, the higher the value the firm is assured of receiving in the market.
