Penco Ltd’s board of directors are looking into expanding the company’s business operations. Before investing in a new product, the board conducted one focus group, and based on this one bit of feedback, invested $5m of company funds to develop the product. Within two years, the company had lost $8m due to poor sales. Shareholders are furious and wish to hold directors personally liable for this loss. Analyse the likely outcome for directors if shareholders were to accuse the board of breaching CA s 180.

Able Corporation owns numerous businesses along the coast of Florida. The company's management has identified business interruption events as a potential risk resulting from storm damages caused by hurricanes. Management is so fearful of the possibility of storm damage that they elect to divest the company of virtually all properties on the Florida coast. Able's response to potential risks is known as:   Avoidance Reduction Share Accept

On November 14, Thorogood Enterprises announced that the public and acrimonious battle with its current CEO had been resolved. Under the terms of the deal, the CEO would step down from his position immediately. In exchange, he was given a generous severance package. Given the information below, calculate the cumulative abnormal return (CAR) around this announcement. Assume the company has an expected return equal to the market return. Note: A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "O" wherever required. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 1 decimal place. Market Return (%) Return (%) Company Date November 7 0.8 0.4 November 8 0.6 0.4 November 9 -0.5 -0.3 November 10 -0.6 -0.5 November 11 1.6 1.0 November 14 -0.4 2.1 November 15 0.1 0.1 November 16 0.9 1.0 November 17 0.5 0.6 November 18 -0.5 0.0 November 21 0.6 0.2 Days from Announcement -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Daily Abnormal Return Cumulative Abnormal…

Karen Johnson, CFO for Raucous Roasters (RR), a specialty coffee manufacturer, is rethinking her company’s working capital policy considering a recent scare she faced when RR’s corporate banker, citing a nationwide credit crunch, balked at renewing RR’s line of credit. Had the line of credit not been renewed, RR would not have been able to make payroll, potentially forcing the company out of business. Although the line of credit was ultimately renewed, the scare has forced Johnson to examine carefully each component of RR’s working capital to make sure it is needed, with the goal of determining whether the line of credit can be eliminated entirely. In addition to (possibly) freeing RR from the need for a line of credit, Johnson is well aware that reducing working capital can also add value to a company by improving its EVA (Economic Value Added). In her corporate finance course Johnson learned that EVA is calculated by taking net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT) and then…