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Question
Paying Payroll Service (PPS) recently declared bankruptcy. The price of PPS's stock has dropped from approximately $10 per share one year ago to $1 today. You can imagine that stockholders are not happy that the value of their stock has dropped so significantly. At the same time the financial position of the firm was deteriorating, PPS executives increased their salaries and perquisites substantially. Nothing they did violated any laws or was considered an unethical act. We would most likely describe this situation as _____.
a. an agency problem
b. an accounting glitch
c. an appropriate use of the tax laws
d. an appropriate action, because executive compensation should always be increased substantially each year
e. acceptable, because it is obvious that the executives were trying to maximize the value of the firm, which is what the shareholders want them to do
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