Q5: Both ask for four ways to encourage managers to achieve stakeholder objectives: share options, performance-related pay, governance codes and listing rules, and monitoring. See the sections on agency theory and reducing the agency problem.
Q5 and Q6: Q5 gives three years of figures and asks how far three objectives were met, then four ways to encourage managers. Q6 asks for the validity of a company statement on dividends, shareholders, overseas costs and tax havens. Worked example 2 shows the layout.
Q6: One question asks for the responsibilities in an ethical framework: economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic. May 2023 Q6 asks for the validity and implications of a statement about dividends, overseas costs and tax havens. See the CSR section and worked example 3.
Professional level · Strategic Financial Management
Strategic Financial Management · May 2023
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Source: ICAN Pathfinder, Professional Level Examination, Strategic Financial Management, May 2023
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Source: ICAN Pathfinder, Professional Level Examination, Strategic Financial Management, May 2023
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