Wednesday 29 April 2015

Conflict of Interest between Management and Equity Holder

Conflict of Interest between Management and Equity Holder

The equity holder is the owner of the business and management are their agent to manage the business for them. The management (Directors) derives power from the equity holder and accountable to equity holder for their performance.

1.       Director Salary:

The management is interested in more benefit while the equity holder would like to keep the salary and benefit at lower side because it will adversely affect the profitability of the organization.

2.       Short Term Objective:

 The management is more interested in short term boost of the profit which would result in increase in their benefit and bonuses. However, equity holder is more interested in stability and long term profitability of the organization.

3.       Risk Assessment:

The management would love to take high risk decision to earn more profit in short run for the short term benefits while the equity holder are more interested in secured investment decisions.

4.       Status Expenditure:

The management would love to have luxurious cars and business flights and five star hotels for official trips while equity holder like to minimize these expendit