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Chapter 1
The Goals and Functions of Financial Management
Discussion Questions
1-1. How did the recession of 2007–2009 compare with other recessions since the
Great Depression in terms of length?
It was the longest
1-2. What effect did the recession of 2007–2009 have on government regulation?
It was greatly increased.
1-3. What advantages does a sole proprietorship offer? What is a major drawback of
this type of organization?
A sole proprietorship offers the advantage of simplicity of decision making and
low organizational and operating costs. A major drawback is that there is
unlimited liability to the owner.
1-4. What form of partnership allows some of the investors to limit their liability?
Explain briefly.
A limited partnership allows some of the partners to limit their liability. Under
this arrangement, one or more partners are designated general partners and have
unlimited liability for the debts of the firm; other partners are designated limited
partners and are liable only for their initial contribution. The limited partners are
normally prohibited from being active in the management of the firm.
1-5. In a corporation, what group has the ultimate responsibility for protecting and
managing the stockholders' interests?
The board of directors.
1-6. What document is necessary to form a corporation?
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The articles of incorporation.
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1-7. What issue does agency theory examine? Why is it important in a public
corporation rather than in a private corporation?
Agency theory examines the relationship between the owners of the firm and the
managers of the firm. In privately owned firms, management and the owners are
usually the same people. Management operates the firm to satisfy its own goals,
needs, financial requirements and the like. As a company moves from private to
public ownership, management now represents all owners. This places
management in the agency position of making decisions in the best interest of all
shareholders.
1-8. Why are institutional investors important in today's business world?
Because institutional investors such as pension funds and mutual funds own a
large percentage of major U.S. companies, they are having more to say about the
way publicly owned companies are managed. As a group, they have the ability to
vote large blocks of shares for the election of a board of directors, which is
suppose to run the company in an efficient, competitive manner. The threat of
being able to replace poor performing boards of directors makes institutional
investors quite influential. Since these institutions, like pension funds and mutual
funds, represent individual workers and investors, they have a responsibility to see
that the firm is managed in an efficient and ethical way.
1-9. Why is profit maximization, by itself, an inappropriate goal? What is meant by the
goal of maximization of shareholder wealth?
The problem with a profit maximization goal is that it fails to take account of risk,
the timing of the benefits is not considered, and profit measurement is a very
inexact process. The goal of shareholders wealth maximization implies that the
firm will attempt to achieve the highest possible total valuation in the
marketplace. It is the one overriding objective of the firm and should influence
every decision.
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1-10. When does insider trading occur? What government agency is responsible for
protecting against the unethical practice of insider trading?
Insider trading occurs when anyone with non-public information buys or sells
securities to take advantage of that private information. The Securities and
Exchange Commission is responsible for protecting markets against insider
trading. In the past people have gone to jail for trading on non-public information.
This has included company officers, investment bankers, printers who have
information before it is publishers, and even truck drivers who deliver business
magazines and read positive or negative articles about a company before the
magazine is on the news stands and then place trades or have friends place trades
based on that information. The SEC has prosecuted anyone who profits from
inside information.
1-11. In terms of the life of the securities offered, what is the difference between money
and capital markets?
Money markets refer to those markets dealing with short-term securities that have
a life of one year or less. Capital markets refer to securities with a life of more
than one year.
1-12. What is the difference between a primary and a secondary market?
A primary market refers to the use of the financial markets to raise new funds for
the corporation. After the securities are sold to the public (institutions and
individuals), they trade in the secondary market between investors. It is in the
secondary market that prices are continually changing as investors buy and sell
securities based on the expectations of corporate prospects.
1-13. Assume you are looking at many companies with equal risk; which ones will
have the highest stock prices?
Given companies with equal risk, those companies with expectations of high
return will have higher common stock prices relative to those companies with
expectations of poor returns.
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1-14. What changes can take place under restructuring? In recent times, what group of
investors has often forced restructuring to take place?
Restructuring can result in changes in the capital structure (liabilities and equity
on the balance sheet). It can also result in the selling of low-profit-margin
divisions with the proceeds reinvested in better investment opportunities, and
sometimes restructuring results in the removal of the current management team or
large reductions in the work force. Restructuring has also included mergers and
acquisitions.
Institutional investors have been very influential in forcing restructuring to take
place in recent years.
12. May there be just clouds enough o’er your life to cause a glorious
sunset.
That every kindly wish and thought,
By friends expressed within these pages,
Be yours, and trials common to us all
May cross your path by “easy stages.”
Remember me when far away,
And only half awake;
Remember me on your wedding-day,
And send a slice of cake.
When worth and beauty prompt the line,
Perhaps a pen as poor as mine
May be forgiven
To try and write of things divine,
And think of heaven!
But pause, rash verse! and don’t abuse
A bashful maiden’s ear with news
Of her own beauty!
And yet no other theme I’ll choose,
Or think a duty!
So, then, for fear I might offend,
I’ll say, God bless her!—and thus end.
13. The earth can boast no purer tie,
No brighter, richer gem,
No jewel of a lovelier dye,
Than Friendship’s diadem.
Then may this ray of light divine
Ne’er from our bosoms fade;
But may it on our pathway shine,
Till death our hearts invade.
---- is your name,
Single is your station;
Happy be the little man
That makes the alteration.
Oh! love is such a strange affair;
So strange to all.
It cometh from above
And lighteth like a dove
On some.
But some it never hits
Unless it gives them fits.
Oh, hum.
Thy cheerful, gentle ways, I do admire:
Thy future, to be happy, I greatly desire;
Thy trusting confidence, may I require;
Thy firm friend to be, will I aspire.
14. As a slight token of esteem,
Accept these lines from me;
So plain and simple, they do seem
Unworthy such as thee.
But soon these traced lines will fade
And disappear—’tis their doom.
May you, unlike them, be arrayed
In a perpetual bloom.
In memory’s wreath may one bud be entwined for me.
We are all placed here to do something. It is for us, and not for
others, to find out what that something is, and then, with all the
energy of which we are capable, honestly and prayerfully to be
about our business.
Oh! think of me some day
When I am far away;
I’ll pray thy days be long
And joyous as the song
Of sweet birds singing near,
Thy heart with love to cheer.
May joy thy spirit fill,
All care and sorrow cease;
Remember ’tis His will
Who hath spoken, “Peace!”
15. In fair and sunny beauty, or gray ’neath evening skies,
The purple hills from misty vales, upward to heaven rise:
Their rugged side we scarce can see o’er-decked with fern and
heather,
That rings its scented violet bells through fair and stormy weather;
So may thy life be clothed with flowers, and breathe a purer air,
Fresh from the “everlasting hills,” knowing no grief or care,—
And if the sunny sky must pale, as pales the setting sun,
May it only show the stars are near, peeping out, one by one!
These few lines to you are tendered,
By a friend sincere and true;
Hoping but to be remembered
When I’m far away from you.
16. Work, while yet the daylight shines,
With a loving heart and true,
For golden years are fleeting by,
And we are passing, too.
Wait not for to-morrow’s sun
To beam upon thy way,
For all that thou can’st call thine own,
Is in this one to-day.
Then learn to make the most of life—
Make glad each passing day—
For time will never bring thee back
The chances swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid—
Do good while life shall last;—
You know the mill can never grind
With the water that is past.
Let not the hours we’ve spent together,
Go past as nothing, by;
Forget me not, e’en though you must
Remember with a sigh.
Thanksgiving-day again is here,
And turkey is the leading question;
I wish, with heartiness sincere,
That you may have a good digestion.
17. Though many flowers have faded from my life,
And clouds obscure the brightness of its sky;
This have I learned: we can do much to make
Our lives a blessing and our words a power,
If what we find to do, for Christ’s dear sake,
We do with faithfulness, from hour to hour.
It may occur in after life
That you, I trust, a happy wife,
Will former happy hours retrace,
Recall each well-remembered face.
At such a moment I but ask—
I hope ’twill be a pleasant task—
That you’ll remember as a friend
One who’ll prove true e’en to the end.
I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged by the morning sun,
And in the dawn they floated on
And mingled into one;
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the west.
Such be your gentle motion,
Till life’s last pulse shall beat,
And you float on in joy to meet
A calmer sea, where storms shall cease—
A purer sky, where all is peace.
When on this page you chance to look,
Just think of me and close the book.
18. Be a good girl, and you will be a true woman.
May thy darkest hours in life be well lighted with the sunshine of
contentment.
Yours sincerely—although merely—
When the golden sun is setting,
And your heart from care is free,
When o’er a thousand things you’re thinking,
Will you sometimes think of me?
How long we live, not years, but actions tell;
That man lives twice who lives the first life well.
Make then, while yet ye may, your God your friend.
Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
The trust that’s given, guard; and to yourself be just;
For, live we how we can, yet die we must.
Live well; how long or short, permit to Heaven;
They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven.
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise;
We masters grow of all that we despise.
19. Your fate is but the common fate of all;
Unmingled joys here to no man befall.
21. May e’en thy failings lean to virtue’s side.
Hours are golden links—God’s token—
Reaching heaven, but one by one;
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere thy pilgrimage be done.
House beautiful—your book, from end to end,
And every page a room to lodge a friend;
Fain would I enter with a seemly grace,
Attired and mannered as befits the place;
But best endeavor falls below the aim
And rests at last, content to leave a name.
The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But, he whose noble soul its fear subdues.
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
22. Fling wide the portals of your heart!
Make it a temple set apart
From earthly use, for Heaven’s employ—
Adorned with prayer and love and joy;
So shall your Sovereign enter in
And new and noble life begin.
We could count time by heart-throbs; he most lives who thinks most,
speaks the noblest, acts the best.
We ourselves shape the joys and fears
Of which the life to come is made,
And fill our future atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade.
When the name that I write here is dim on the page,
And the leaves of your album are yellow with age,
Still think of me kindly, and do not forget
That, wherever I am, I remember you yet.
The massive gates of circumstance
Are turned upon the slightest hinge,
And thus some seeming pettiest chance,
Oft gives to life its after tinge.
23. Oh, for a home in Zululand, or Arctic regions cold,
A peasant’s cot or hermit’s hut, midst solitude untold,
With Kaffirs or with Hottentots, in Egypt or Leone—
’Twere bliss to live in any spot where albums are unknown.
In times of prosperity our friends are many,
But the time of adversity tries and proves them.
Gems of price are deeply hidden,
’Neath the rugged rocks concealed;
What would ne’er come forth unbidden,
To thy search may be revealed.
While the fading flowers of pleasure,
Spring spontaneous from the soil,
Thou wilt find the harvest’s treasure
Yields alone to patient toil.
If recollections of friends brighten moments or sadness,
What a fund of delight is here treasured for thee!
If advice and kind wishes bring goodness and gladness,
How perfect and happy thy future must be.
The tissues of the Life to be—
We weave with colors all our own,
And in the field of Destiny,
We reap as we have sown.
24. There is seldom a line of glory written upon earth’s face, but a line of
suffering runs parallel with it; and they that read the lustrous
syllables of the one, and stoop not to decipher the spotted and worn
inscription of the other, get the least half of the lesson that earth has
to give.
Leaf green on ground of white,
My name, I fain would write
That you remember still
In June or in December chill,
We two are friends.
Oh, wayward mortal who these books invented,
Why was’t thou not by some kind hand prevented?
And thereby kept from many a luckless swain,
The direful knowledge that he lacked a brain—
Lacked it, at least, where poetry was needed,
Like the poor wight who here has not succeeded.
25. Through days of doubt and darkness,
In fear and trembling breath,
Through mists of sin and sorrow,
In tears and grief and death;
Through days of light and gladness,
Through days of love and life,
Through smiles and joy and sunshine,
Through days with beauty rife;
The Lord of life and glory,
The King of earth and sea,
The Lord who guarded Israel;
Keep watch, sweet friend, o’er thee.
Truth—Freedom—Virtue—these have power;
If rightly cherished, to uphold, sustain,
And bless thy spirit, in its darkest hour.
Thy own trim, modest form,
Is always neatly clad,
Thou surely will make the tidiest wife
That ever husband had.
Among the many friends who claim
A kind remembrance in thy heart,
I too, would add my simple name,
Among the rest.
26. May God’s mercy ever guide thee,
Safe o’er all thy thorny road;
And His grace what’er betide thee,
Lead thee home to His abode.
The large are not the sweetest flowers;
The long are not the happiest hours;
Much talk doth not much friendship tell;
Few words are best—I wish you well.
Let your life be like a snowflake, which leaves a mark, but not a
stain.
Begirt with roses of the royal June,
A resurrected day swings highest morn
In every year; and so through life I pray
Nay never failing changes, bring their day,
And flames of love in swinging censers rise
While all thy thoughts leads on toward the skies.
Small service is true service while it last;
Of friends, however humble, scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it cast,
Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun.
Make good use of time, if thou lovest eternity; yesterday cannot be
recalled—to-morrow cannot be secured—to-day only is thine, which,
if once lost, is lost forever.
27. In time we transact business for eternity; whatever, therefore, we do
now, should be done well.
May each thought be pure, and sincere,
Addressed upon these spotless pages;
Reflections fond, they’ll always prove,
Youthful friend, through many ages.
They who have light in themselves, will not revolve as satellites.
Through time we’ll change, and then,
This little book will somewhat bind us;
You’ll take it up, and think of me
And all the joys we’ve left behind us.
As the shadow of the sun is largest when his beams are lowest, so
we are always least when we make ourselves the greatest.
Across the page of spotless white
Friends trail the pen, and in our sight
Grow precious all the lines they write.
As for some white-sailed ship at sea,
So, little book, my watch for thee;
Return with freight of love to me.
Every hour comes to us charged with duty, and the moment it is
past, returns to Heaven to register itself how spent.
28. There’s a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow,
Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the heart.
Write your name by kindness, love and mercy upon the hearts of
those you come in contact with, and you will never be forgotten.
Let Fate do her worst; there are relics of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, she cannot destroy;
They come in the night-time of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled,
You may break—you may shatter the vase, if you will;
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counsel, caution your elder brother, and hope
your guardian genius.
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done.
29. ’Tis but a trifle that you ask,
But this you will admit,
That trifles, more than greater tasks,
Will sometimes strain our wit.
I wish thee health, and wealth, and joy,
As others have before:
And were I in poetic mood,
I’d surely wish thee more.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall.
Here’s a sigh for those who love me,
And a smile for those who hate,
And whatever sky’s above me,
Here’s a heart for every fate.
In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow,
Thou art such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow;
Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen, about thee,
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
May you live in bliss, from sorrow away,
Having plenty laid up for a rainy day;
And when you are ready to settle in life,
May you find a good husband and make a good wife.
30. I write here a name which I hope shall be known
To all of the ages which follow my own.
‘How conceited!’ you say; but my lines shall remain;
’Tis my hope, you’ll discover, not I, that is vain.
Our lives are albums; each new day’s a page
As spotless as the leaf on which I write.
Whene’er those books of ours shall be read,
May few unwise inscriptions meet the sight.
On the broad highway of action
Friends of worth are far and few;
But when one has proved her friendship,
Cling to her who clings to you.
Were mine the power I’d twine for thee
A crown of jewels rare;
Each gem should be a kingdom,
Each pearl an humble prayer.
There are few friends in this wide world
That love is fond and true;
But ---- when you count them o’er
Place me among the few.
31. There is a small and simple flower
That twines around the humblest cot,
And in the sad and lonely hours
It whispers low: “Forget me not.”
When asked in an album to write,
I feel quite inclined to refuse;
For what should I dare to indite
That would a young lady amuse?
Not wit, for I have none of that,
Nor romance—my fancy is tame;
And compliments sound so flat,
I’m forced to write merely my name.
May you always be happy,
And live at your ease;
Get a kind husband,
And do as you please.
True friends, like ivy and the wall,
Both stand together or together fall.
Beauty is but a vain, a fleeting good,
A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly,
A flower that dies when almost in the bud,
A bright glass that breaketh suddenly;
A fleeting good, a glass, a gloss, a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within the hour.
32. May happiness ever be thy lot,
Wherever thou shalt be;
And joy and pleasure light the spot
That may be home to thee.
How sweet to have a faithful friend,
In whom we can confide:
To bless us if we act aright,
And if we err to chide.
Hope the best, get ready for the worst, and take what God sends.
Be content with the lot God has marked out for you. Love, honor and
obey Him in all things, and your last days will be peaceful and
happy.
May the morn of thy life be bright and joyous, the noontide peaceful
and happy, and the sunset gloriously hopeful, is the wish of your
friend.
Life, Death and Immortality—these three—the first, the Road—the
second, the Gate. May you walk safely the first, pass triumphantly
the second, and rest forever in the third.
May the Angels twine for thee
A wreath of immortality.
33. Yes, ----, I will write my name
In here, as you request;
And, if to you its all the same,
I’ll add a line—though rather tame—
For Critics eyes, as my bequest.
My wishes and my hopes for you,
Find glad expression here;
Although, indeed, it’s very true,
There is no room for all that’s due
To one we hold so dear.
Good health—first wish of all—
Of all God’s gifts the best;
A happy heart, that loves to call
On Him who notes the sparrow’s fall
And promises sweet rest.
Although beset by worldly care,
Fix all your hopes on Heaven,
And view by faith the glories fair,
Which, in that world beyond the air,
To faithful ones are given.
Although I am advised not to write fast,
I hope the thought I would express may last.
You ask for your Album a rhyme;
With pleasure I hear and obey;
Refusal were folly or crime—
For who could to ---- say “nay?”
34. May Heaven on you its choicest blessings shower—
Is the sincere wish of your friend.
Be kind to all; be intimate with few;
And may the few be well chosen.
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers
upon their road; they both appear great in the distance, but when
we approach them, we find them far less insurmountable than we
had conceived.
Miss ----! O Miss ----!
What can I write that’s new
Among so very many
Pretty compliments to you?
In poetry, I fear I’d fail—
I’m very sure I’d stammer—
You cannot drive the ponderous nail
With a small ten-cent tack hammer.
Since, then, so high I cannot soar,
Nor chirp notes like the lark,
Please cancel what I’ve said before,
I’ll simply make my mark.
It has been beautifully said: The water that flows from a spring does
not congeal in winter; and those sentiments which flow from the
heart cannot be chilled by adversity.
Roses, without thorns, for thee.
35. I’ll just write a few words here; so that when
You turn these and life’s pages o’er again,
Your memory back to the time will go,
When you and I were “O” and “Jo.”[1]
How we worked together in ’79,
Wafting lightning over the W. U. Line
To W. M.—called “our quod,” you know—
When you and I were “O” and “Jo.”
How Lu talked by the hour to us,
(And we stood it like martyr’s making no fuss),
How we used to get “snatched”—we hated that so—
When you and I signed “O” and “Jo.”
I’ll not wish you all sunshine; for life is made
Up of installments of sunlight and shade.
May you never be worse off through life, as you go,
Than when on W. M. wire we signed “O” and “Jo.”
May the hinges of our Friendship never rust.
May your days in joy be passed
With friends to bless and cheer,
And each year exceed the last
In all that earth holds dear.
36. There’s many a trouble
Would break like a bubble,
And into the waters of Lethe depart,
Did not we rehearse it
And tenderly nurse it,
And give it a permanent place in the heart.
Resolve to be merry,
All worry to ferry,
Across the famed waters that bid us forget.
And no longer fearful,
But happy and cheerful,
We feel life has much that’s worth living for yet.
May we always remain as good friends as we are neighbors.
The night has a thousand eyes;—
The day but one;
Yet the light of the whole world dies
With the setting sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes—
The day but one;
Yet the light of the whole world dies
When love is done.
On this spotless page my pen essays to trace a record of affection;
and, as I write, a wish is in my heart that, for thee, every life-leaf
will be written with the golden pen of love.
37. Though many friends have signed their names,
And some have left their mark,
I see a place for me remains
To add my small remark.
My wish for thee is: joy through life;
And bliss supreme, when some one’s wife.
I pray the prayer of Plato old:
God make thee beautiful within;
And let thine eye the good behold
In everything, save sin.
A few true friends to aid us and love us,
And cordial hands to warmly clasp our own;
O! surely God hath never made us
To live distrustingly, selfish, and alone.
A verse you ask this fine day:
Of course I’ll write you one.
The task of writing finds its pay
In joy that it is done.
Why ask a name;
Small is the good it brings;
Names are but breath—
Deeds—deeds alone—are things.
38. When years and months have glided by,
And on this page you cast your eye,
Remember ’twas a friend sincere
That left this kind remembrance here.
With best wishes for your future cheer.
Dear ----, may your life be blest
With friendship, love and happiness;
May all your friends prove true,
And cheer you all the journey through.
May Future, with her kindest smile,
Wreath laurels for thy brow;
May loving angels guard and keep thee
Ever pure as thou art now.
If writing in Albums remembrance insures,
With the greatest of pleasure I’ll scribble in yours.
In after years when you recall
The days of pleasures past,
And think of joyous hours and all
Have flown away so fast,
When some forgotten air you hear
Brings back past scenes to thee,
And gently claims your listening ear
Keep one kind thought for me.
39. The truest happiness is found in making others happy.
Accept my friend these lines from me,
They show that I remember thee,
And hope some thought they will retain
Till you and I shall meet again.
For thee, my fair and gentle friend,
I ask not wealth or fame,
I only ask thy path may be
Free from life’s toil and care.
Among the many friends that claim
A kind remembrance in thy breast,
I too would add my simple name.
Among the rest.
Never grow weary doing good.
I want a warm and faithful friend,
To cheer the adverse hour;
Who ne’er to flatter will descend,
Nor bend the knee to power;
A friend to chide me when I’m wrong;
My inmost soul to see;
And that my friendship prove as strong
For him as his for me.