Agency costs
The sum of monitoring expenditures by the principal, bonding expenditures by the agent, and residual loss resulting from interest misalignment.
Source: The Evolution of Corporate Governance: A Comparative Study of the Cadbury Committee Report (1992), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), and the Indian Corporate Governance Framework (Academic research) · p.5
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