Research Paper on:
Corporate Finance and the Effects of Government Regulations

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While this can cut into the profits of a company, thus lessening the shareholder wealth, at the same time businesses do have an ethical obligation to follow these imposed regulations  in order to comply with regulations that are enacted for the good of the environment and other major concerns. REGULATIONS BY GOVERNMENT  There will likely be no end to the long-term relationship between government regulation and business. The two entities have become familiar bedfellows throughout the near and far past as  government agencies continually attempt to place their direction upon commerce. Hit particularly hard by governmental infiltration are the small businesses, which are said to be the "engine that drives  the economy" (Torres, 1998, p. C2-6). It has been surmised that small businesses are frequently misunderstood by the government with regard to the concerns that revolve around industry-related issues.  This misinterpretation has led the government to become unfamiliar with the true concerns surrounding small business owners. An example of this that  illustrates such gross misunderstanding is the fact that the government rates capital concern as the primary problem, when in actuality a California survey showed that it was fourth on the  list of small business owners. Before capital were more important issues of labor availability, state and federal taxes. "You have workers that are often difficult to train when  willing, but are often unwilling to really work and earn their way" (Torres, 1998, p. C2-6). To demonstrate the escalating power government has  upon the business world, statistics representing such a stronghold show that the previous Federal Register, which boasted an overwhelming forty-one thousand pages in the nineteen eighties, now reflects over ninety-six