Discuss some of the agency problems your client might encounter and explain how such agency problems can be resolved.

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Discuss some of the agency problems your client might encounter

and explain how such agency problems can be resolved.

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Some agency problems that client may face are:

  1. Conflict between owners of the firm and managers hired by it.
  2. Conflict between those having controlling interest and those having non-controlling interest.
  3. Conflict between the firm itself- including owners and other parties like customers, creditors, employees.
Step 2

Such agency problems can be resolved in the following ways:

  • First problem can be resolved by following ways:
  1. Managers can be threatened of firing in case of non-performance.
  2. Remuneration must be given on performance based.
  3. Having a voluntary code of ethics for managers.
  4. By incurring agency costs.
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