Week 01 - Conflict between shareholder wealth maximization and profit maximization
In the first week of lectures, I was able to
understand what is corporate financial management, it is the way of managing a
company's finances effectively and efficiently in order to achieve the
organisation's goals and objectives. For further understanding of this topic I
referred the website Investopedia.com where an article reviewed by Will Kenton,
2019 states the corporate financing involves Financing Divisions, investment
Decisions and Dividend Decisions. Link:
The primary concern of corporate
finance is to increase the shareholder value by long and short term financial
planning and also by implementing different strategies. Other common corporate
concerns when it comes to corporate finance are, Revenue/Sales Maximization,
Profit Maximization, Survival, Market Share Dominance and Social
Responsibility. However attention must also be given to the boundaries,
looking through the Anglo American lens companies focus on boundaries such as
the company owned by the shareholders, liability of shareholders for companies
actions is restricted to the value of shareholders investment, shareholders
have a say in a companies management, can appoint and remove directors, must be
consulted before important decisions are to be made, can sell or pass their
ownership.
Furthermore referring to this
video i was able to understand goals of financial management - profit maximization vs wealth maximization.
The below image explains the conflicts
of profit maximization and wealth maximization.
After considering the boundaries the
ultimate concern for corporate finance will be maximizing shareholder wealth
from an Anglo American Perspective. This is also known as Shareholder Primacy
Norm SPN. Wealth maximization is known as increasing the value of a company
in order to increase the value of the shares held by shareholders. The main
difference between profit maximization and wealth maximization is that profit
maximization focuses on short term earnings, while the wealth maximization
focus is on increasing the overall value of the business entity over
time. Responsibility in Corporate Financing is where the Financial
Managers achieve corporate financial sustainability where practices and
systems are put in places to protect the organization from reckless financial
decisions.
In the first week of lectures, I was able to
understand what is corporate financial management, it is the way of managing a
company's finances effectively and efficiently in order to achieve the
organisation's goals and objectives. For further understanding of this topic I
referred the website Investopedia.com where an article reviewed by Will Kenton,
2019 states the corporate financing involves Financing Divisions, investment
Decisions and Dividend Decisions. Link:
The primary concern of corporate
finance is to increase the shareholder value by long and short term financial
planning and also by implementing different strategies. Other common corporate
concerns when it comes to corporate finance are, Revenue/Sales Maximization,
Profit Maximization, Survival, Market Share Dominance and Social
Responsibility. However attention must also be given to the boundaries,
looking through the Anglo American lens companies focus on boundaries such as
the company owned by the shareholders, liability of shareholders for companies
actions is restricted to the value of shareholders investment, shareholders
have a say in a companies management, can appoint and remove directors, must be
consulted before important decisions are to be made, can sell or pass their
ownership.
Furthermore referring to this
video i was able to understand goals of financial management - profit maximization vs wealth maximization.
The below image explains the conflicts
of profit maximization and wealth maximization.
After considering the boundaries the
ultimate concern for corporate finance will be maximizing shareholder wealth
from an Anglo American Perspective. This is also known as Shareholder Primacy
Norm SPN. Wealth maximization is known as increasing the value of a company
in order to increase the value of the shares held by shareholders. The main
difference between profit maximization and wealth maximization is that profit
maximization focuses on short term earnings, while the wealth maximization
focus is on increasing the overall value of the business entity over
time. Responsibility in Corporate Financing is where the Financial
Managers achieve corporate financial sustainability where practices and
systems are put in places to protect the organization from reckless financial
decisions.
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