CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY This study analyses the effect of the agency theory and accounting choice usually been made by managers of Nigeria listed companies. It (agency theory and accounting choice) can be demonstrated in the modern day companies where management is usually separated from the ownership of business. The professional managers are supposed to make decisions and take actions that are consistent with the objective of maximising shareholders wealth. But this
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Rational choice is known as a choice theory or rational action for understanding and formally modeling social and economic behavior. When People commit a certain crime they balance of how much they will gain and how much will be loss in terms of getting caught and being punished. Derek Cornish and Ronald Clarke are two scholars that purposed rational choice theory; this theory leads to a preference to control crime through more informal situational prevention. Cornish and Clarke believed that people
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Whilst recognizing that individual choices are important in determining health outcomes and risk of obesity‚ Marmot argues that in reality‚ personal behaviours and individual choices are commonly influenced by conditions in which people live and work and that socioeconomic position means that those‚ such that those who have more advantage have the freedom and opportunity to make healthier ‘choices’ (Marmot…). He argues that the rational choice theory is not particularly helpful in this regard as
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Crimes are rooted on the motives of the predator. There have been developed different theories to explain the root motives of causing crimes. Rational Choice theory emphasizes on the element of the three actors ( Jacky G.‚2014). Rational actor opts to do the crimes by choice‚ but can be prevented by installing stiff punishment policies. Predestined actor has strong urges for performing the crimes and their environment acts as the main motivator. Finally‚ victimized actor is motivated by residing
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TASK ASSIGNMENT Apply the rational choice theory in the context of your past or present work experience. I can think of these examples that the Rational Choice Theory is applied: my membership in GMA’s Multi-Purpose Cooperative and participation in various volunteer activities. Cooperative I have joined GMA’s Multi-Purpose Cooperative since 2002 recognizing the optimum benefits from my savings versus the traditional bank savings deposit. Saving through COOP seems unfelt because it is deducted
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Choice theory was born out of the perspective of crime causation which states that criminality is the result of conscious choice. This theory is also known as the rational choice theory. According to this theory‚ the choice whether or not to commit a criminal act is the result of a rational thought process that weighs the risks of paying the costs of committing a crime‚ against the benefits obtained. In other words‚ if the benefits--monetary or otherwise--outweigh the risks of sustaining the costs
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Choice Theory and Digital Crime Denise Shaffer July 25 2014 CIS170 Strayer University Choice Theory and Digital Crime There are several different theories that could be used to describe those who commit computer crimes. I am going to summarize Choice Theory and why I think it is most relevant to computer crimes. The Choice Theory basically in a nut shell says that a person will choose to commit a crime even after weighing the positive and negative outcomes of doing so. To this person they see
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sense of isolation. Two theories that can be applied to this case would be the Rational Choice Theory and the Situational Choice Theory. According to Schmallegar‚ F. (2015). Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction. RCT is a perspective that holds criminality is the result of conscious choice and predict that individuals choose to commit crime when the benefits outweigh the cost of disobeying the law. RCT can be tied to Ethan Couch case because he made a conscious choice to go out and steal beer
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Acts and Choice Theories CJA 490- Survey of Criminal Justice Abstract In society‚ people always want to point a finger as to who did what and why. For centuries‚ theorists have come up with ideas to try to identify and explain why people commit crimes. What causes them the break the law‚ even when they know the repercussions for their actions. Many theories have been brought up‚ but only a few have surpassed time and are approved by society and law enforcement. These choice theories hypothesize
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Furthermore‚ rational choice theory is useful in trying to explain and understand why human trafficking and forced labor occurs. According to this theory‚ the decision-making process of rationality is what determines the opportunities taken after weighing the costs‚ anticipated benefits and risk of committing these crimes. The perpetuators from the case outweighed the consequences from their crimes with the benefits and decided to execute them anyway. This theory is both offender and offense specific
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