THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF PRIVATE FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO KENYA
A private foreign investment is an investment made by a private individual or a private entity in a foreign country.
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DIVIDEND THEORIES AND DIVIDEND POLICIES
Dividend policy is the policy used by a company to decide how much it will pay out to shareholders in dividends. Part of the profits are kept in the company as retained earnings and the other part is distributed as dividends to shareholders.
EFFICIENT MARKET THEORY AND TESTS
EFFICIENT MARKET THEORY AND TESTS Market Efficiency A market is said to be efficient if prices in that market reflect all available information. Market efficiency refers to a condition in which current stock prices reflect all the publicly available information about a security.
DO AWAY WITH EPZ COMPANIES IN KENYA OR STOP ISSUING NEW LICENSES
Export Processing Zones (EPZ) program came into existence in 1990 following the enactment of CAP 517 Laws of Kenya, which also created the Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA), as the regulatory body. However, while the program was officially adopted in 1990, production activities did not take off effectively until 1993. The introduction of the program follows several studies indicated their viability, thus making Kenya one of the early African countries to adopt EPZ in the 1990s. The factors which favoured establishment of EPZs in Kenya included among others, relatively large and dynamic private sector, a low cost but well trained labour force and relatively good infrastructure.
ARGUMENT FOR AND AGAINST PROFIT AND WEALTH MAXIMIZATION GOALS IN LIGHT OF CORPORATE FINANCE
Every individual firm in any market segment has well set goals that it aims to achieve. These goals may be set by the owners or shareholders who must collaborate closely with the agents whom they have given the responsibility to manage the firm. The agents are basically the managers who through the agency theory must ensure that the firm is meeting its strategic goals. A firm with no set goals or one that doesn’t have good managers is set to fail in its bid to make profit and hence will definitely have to close down. To ensure that a firm meets its objectives, a few considerations must be looked at. These could include: