WorksheetsQuiz - The Principle of Governance and Control
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
An agency problem in finance usually pertains to whom?
A. Management and employees
B. Management and stockholders
C. Employees and customers
D. Customers and stockholdolders
Which of the following is more likely to be a solution to agency problems ?
A. A stock option plan for the CEO that very competitive but only for the CEO
B. A stock option plan that is barely competitive concerning all the top management team.
C. An active Board of Directors but relatively inexperienced.
D. An experienced Board of Directors but with a limited power of monitoring the top management team.
In agency problems, there are two ways that mergers and acquisitions benefit managers. Those are...
A. Diversify Human Capital and Increase Size
B. Increase Competitive Advantage and Competitive Parity
C. Increase Profits and Economic Value
D. None of the Above
What is the difference between a merger and an acquisition?
A. No real difference—the terms are synonymous
B. An acquisition is a merger involving a hostile takeover
C. In a merger, there is never any acquirer or target—two companies simply fuse
D. A merger is a type of acquisition in which the acquirer and the target combine to become one legal entity
Which of the following is not a dubious reason for a merger ?
A. Diversification
B. Increasing the Earnings Per Share (EPS)
C. Lowers cost of debt
D. The acquirer uses a surplus of cash.
Which of the following is not a sensible reason for a merger ?
A. Economies of Scale
B. Economies of Vertical Integration
C. Combining Complementary Resources
D. None of the above
Corporations that grow through buying other corporations are growing via which of the below strategies:
A. Organic Growth
B. Acquisition
C. Divestiture
D. All of the above
In the long run, a successful acquisition is one that:
A. enables the acquirer to make an all-equity purchase, thereby avoiding additional debt contracting.
B. enables the acquirer to diversify its asset base.
C. increases the market price of the acquirer's stock over what it would have been without the acquisition.
D. increases the amount of financial debt.
The public sale of common stock in a subsidiary in which the parent usually retains majority control is called
A. a LBO (leveraged buyout) transaction.
B. a spin-off.
C. a partial sell-off.
D. an equity carve-out.
Empirical evidence on acquisitions indicates .... excess returns on average to the shareholders of the selling company, and .... excess returns on average to those of the buying company.
A. no; no
B. substantial; no
C. no; substantial
D. substantial; substantial
