Ah, I love loaded questions.
Stockholder Wealth Maximization is the root goal of all business.
But a narow focus on that can lead to neglecting many facets of business:
Re-investment in technology and capital projects.
Investing in Training and employee development
Enviromental risk assesment and reduction.
Comunity involvment and stewardship
Basic Empoyee health and benifit (See Wall Mart )
The concept of maximizing share holder wealth is a goal that encompasses everything that is expected out of a management. when would share holder wealth increase? Either by dividends or by increase in value of the shares. When can a company declare dividends or when would a company's share value increase? when its profits increase, its net sales and revenue increase etc. so indirectly by trying to achieve one goal we are attaining some other goals that are very important for a company's existence.
wealth maximization is a stratigic target of the entity , while the profit maximizations is a tactical one . the profit maximization always concern with the operational plans .... and the wealth maximization always concern with top managements plans .
Problems involved with the use of profit maximization as the goal of the firm due to numbers of reasons. 1 It ignore the timing of return. 2 It ignores the timing of returns. 3 It ignores the risk.
Profit maximization includes some shortcomings like it ignores the risk that corresponds to the project's stream of cash flow. The timing of returns are ignored with this objective and it does not have as much relevance to a monopoly firm.
A free market economy has its advantages as well as disadvantages. Some disadvantages are that a competitive environment creates an atmosphere of survival of the fittest. Wealth is not distributed equally, and there is no economic stability.
A free market economy has its advantages as well as disadvantages. Some disadvantages are that a competitive environment creates an atmosphere of survival of the fittest. Wealth is not distributed equally, and there is no economic stability.
Wealth is the accumulation of profit so it might seem that the two are maximized in the same way. But there are differences. Some examples:- Profit may be taxed. So wealth is maximized by maximizing the net of profit minus tax impacts which may occur in the future.- Increased value of an investment would add to wealth but would not show up as profit until the investment is sold.-Wealth may be obtained in ways other than profit. Receiving a gift or buying something for less than its real value may add to wealth but are not profit.-Stock buy-backs by a company produce no profit but increase stockholder wealth by driving up the value per share held.
There are various conditions under which profit maximization may not lead to stock price maximization. Some of them include outstanding shares and assets falling below the cost of the debt among others.
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Sell all of their stocks in corporations in which the interests of management do not coincide with those of the stockholders.
Wealth maximation aims in maximising Shareholders wealth, employees wealth, profiting the external and internal parties of the firm, vendors, vendees, customers, investors, employers and all the parties interested in the benefit of the company. Wealth maximation results in increased goodwill, branding and reputation of the company. Where as profit maximation only deals with increased profits. Wealth maximation is a wider concept
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